With highly skilled cardiac surgeons across Michigan, McLaren leads the way in aortic valve repair and replacement surgery.
A broad range of cardiac surgical options are available at McLaren to reroute, or "bypass," blood around blocked arteries, thereby improving the supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart.
McLaren offers traditional and minimally invasive heart valve repair surgery.
McLaren is a leader in mitral valve repair surgeries.
In cases of conditions such as pulmonary valve stenosis, some people may need heart surgery to repair or replace their pulmonary valve. Luckily, McLaren can help.
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) is surgery typically performed in older adults to replace the aortic valve.
McLaren's team of heart surgeons are experts at repairing Ventricular Septal Defects (VSD).
Although John Kanera spent the 2024 holiday season recovering from open heart surgery, he didn’t miss a beat, and he’s already planning for the future. John found out last fall that a heart murmur he’d had for years was his aortic valve narrowing due to the build-up of calcium over time. Testing revealed he needed a valve replacement. John is one of the five million Americans diagnosed with heart valve disease each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “I first met with Dr. ...
Deborah Burns, 71, of Grand Blanc was having trouble breathing. After a visit to her family doctor, she was referred to a cardiologist who discovered that she had a severely narrowed aortic valve and possible blockages in her coronary arteries that were causing her to be short of breath. After a full work up and two heart catherization procedures, Dr. Fouad Azoury , who is a member of the multi-disciplinary structural heart team at McLaren Flint, discussed her results and initially decided on per...