Mitral valve regurgitation care at Mayo Clinic
Your Mayo Clinic care team
At Mayo Clinic, cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and other specialists work together to provide you with coordinated, comprehensive care. You're not getting just one opinion — you benefit from the knowledge and experience of each specialist on the multidisciplinary team. This collaborative approach means Mayo health care professionals can often evaluate you and develop an individualized treatment plan within 2 to 3 days.
- Individualized care. Mayo Clinic provides care for you as a whole person. Your health care team takes the time to get to know you and works with you to provide exactly the care you need.
- Pediatric heart care. Pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons in the Center for Congenital Heart Disease at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota provide comprehensive care for children with heart valve disease and other congenital heart conditions.
- Mayo Clinic has state-of-the-art research and laboratory facilities. Mayo Clinic mitral valve surgeons and doctors use advanced technology and imaging tests to help accurately diagnose mitral valve disease and determine which areas of the mitral valve may need repair.
The echocardiography laboratories at Mayo Clinic have advanced 3D technology that gives a more detailed look at the heart valves than does conventional 2D imaging.
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Innovative treatment. Mayo Clinic cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons perform mitral valve repair and mitral valve replacement to treat some types of mitral valve disease. Surgeons do mitral valve repair when possible, as it saves the valve and may preserve heart function. If a valve can't be repaired, the surgeon may recommend mitral valve replacement.
Mayo cardiovascular surgeons may perform minimally invasive heart surgery, including robot-assisted heart surgery, to repair a mitral valve. Such surgery involves the use of smaller incisions than those used in open-heart surgery.
Mayo cardiologists may use less-invasive catheter procedures in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory to treat mitral valve disease, including mitral valve regurgitation. Treatment may involve the use of clips or plugs to repair mitral valves. Doctors also may use a transcatheter procedure to insert a replacement valve into an existing biological tissue replacement valve that's no longer working.
Expertise and rankings
Mayo Clinic cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons have experience and expertise treating mitral valve regurgitation with mitral valve repair and mitral valve replacement and other types of heart valve surgery.
Doctors in Mayo's Valvular Heart Disease Clinic treat people with mitral valve regurgitation and other heart valve diseases.
Pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota have experience treating children with mitral valve regurgitation and other heart conditions.
Nationally recognized expertise
Mayo doctors evaluate and treat more than 16,000 people with mitral valve disease, including mitral valve regurgitation, each year.
Mayo Clinic campuses are nationally recognized for expertise in cardiology and cardiovascular surgery:
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., are ranked among the Best Hospitals for heart and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report.
- Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2023–2024 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.
With Mayo Clinic's emphasis on collaborative care, specialists at each of the campuses —Arizona, Minnesota and Florida — interact very closely with colleagues at the other campuses and the Mayo Clinic Health System.
Learn more about Mayo Clinic's cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular surgery departments' expertise and rankings.
Locations, travel and lodging
Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic Health System has dozens of locations in several states.
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