TAVR/Structural Heart

Structural heart disease, or cardiac defects that do not affect the heart’s blood vessels, often demand the combined services of the Heart & Vascular Institute’s interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons.

Here are the highlights:

TAVR

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A replacement aortic valve placed within the original, via a catheter.

TMVR

Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement: A replacement mitral valve placed within the existing surgically replaced valve, via a catheter.

MitraClip

For patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who are not candidates for traditional surgery. This procedure does not require opening the chest or stopping the heart temporarily.

PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale) Closures

A hole in the heart everyone is born with but only 25 percent of the general population retains.

Left Atrial Appendage Closures

When blood collects, then clots, in the left atrial appendage of patients with atrial fibrillation.

Our TAVR/Structural Heart Locations:

Heart & Vascular Institute at Hartford Hospital
85 Jefferson Street, Hartford, Suite 704
Heart & Vascular Institute at St. Vincent’s Medical Center
At St. Vincent’s Regional Heart and Vascular Center, we offer a range of cardiac treatments and surgical procedures for you and your loved ones performed by our expert cardiac care team.

Meet our Structural Heart Disease and TAVR Specialists:

	Specialties	Location
Pousatis, Sheelagh, MD 4.9 /5 82 surveys 860.696.5520	Cardiac Surgery	Hartford
Vlismas, Peter Paul, MD 860.972.1212	Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiovascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford Bridgeport Show Less
Peckham, Elizabeth Nicole, APRN 4.9 /5 54 surveys 860.886.0023	Cardiovascular Medicine	Norwich Plainfield Show Less
Jaiswal, Abhishek, MD 5.0 /5 75 surveys 860.972.1212	Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiovascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford Bridgeport Fairfield Hamden Hartford Show Less
Begley, Kristen, PA-C 4.8 /5 71 surveys 860.242.8756	Cardiovascular Medicine	Bloomfield
Wachtarz, Amber, APRN, DNP 4.8 /5 45 surveys 860.242.8756	Cardiovascular Medicine	Bloomfield
Bell, Jennifer, MD 5.0 /5 33 surveys 860.972.1212	Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiovascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford Bridgeport Show Less
Franke, Sara, APRN 203.315.5300	Cardiovascular Medicine	Branford Guilford Hamden New Haven Show Less
Cheema, Mohiuddin, MD 4.9 /5 188 surveys 860.696.5520	Cardiac Surgery Vascular Surgery Show Less	Hartford
Morrison, Robert Francis, MD, FACC 4.9 /5 417 surveys 203.867.5300	Cardiovascular Medicine Echocardiography Nuclear Cardiology Show Less	Guilford Branford Hamden New Haven Show Less
Haider, Jawad, MD, FACC, RPVI 4.8 /5 146 surveys 860.524.3070	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Show Less	Bloomfield Hartford Show Less
Portnay, Edward Lowell, MD, FACC, FSCAI 203.353.1133	Interventional Cardiology	Stamford
Memon, Sarfaraz, MD 860.524.3070	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford Norwich Show Less
Radojevic, Joseph Anthony, MD 860.972.1212	Cardiovascular Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Show Less	Hartford
Selter, Jared Gideon, MD, FACC 203.445.7093	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Nuclear Cardiology Show Less	Trumbull Bridgeport Fairfield Show Less
Savaria, Mary Ann, APRN 5.0 /5 72 surveys 860.886.0023	Cardiovascular Medicine	Norwich
Gluck, Jason Aaron, DO, FACC 860.972.1212	Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiovascular Medicine Nuclear Cardiology Show Less	Hartford Hartford Show Less
Lorenz, David Patrick, MD, FACC 203.845.2160	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Endovascular Medicine Internal Medicine Vascular Medicine Show Less	Norwalk Bridgeport Show Less
Hagberg, Robert Carl, MD 4.9 /5 186 surveys 860.696.5520	Cardiac Surgery	Hartford
Thompson, Craig Alan, MD 860.524.3070	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Endovascular Medicine Vascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford
Jumper, Robert Duva, MD 203.445.7093	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Show Less	Trumbull Fairfield Show Less
Rizvi, Asad Ali, MD, FACC 860.524.3070	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Echocardiography Nuclear Cardiology Show Less	Hartford Norwich Show Less
Sadiq, Immad, MD 4.8 /5 36 surveys 860.524.3070	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Endovascular Medicine Vascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford Norwich Show Less
Azemi, Talhat, MD, FACC, RPVI 4.9 /5 61 surveys 860.524.3070	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Echocardiography Endovascular Medicine Nuclear Cardiology Vascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford Norwich Show Less
Squitieri, Rafael Paolo, MD 4.9 /5 204 surveys 203.576.5708	Cardiac Surgery	Bridgeport
Carreras, Edward Thomas, MD, FACC, FSCAI 203.380.3910	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Echocardiography Show Less	Stratford Bridgeport Milford Show Less
McMahon, Sean, MD 860.972.2976	Cardiovascular Medicine Nuclear Medicine Show Less	Hartford
Piccirillo, Bryan James, MD 4.9 /5 58 surveys 860.524.3070	Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine Show Less	Hartford Norwich Show Less
Mai, Xingchen, MD 4.8 /5 56 surveys 860.972.1212	Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiovascular Medicine Echocardiography Show Less	Hartford Norwich Show Less
Yaffee, David, MD 4.9 /5 135 surveys 860.696.5520	Cardiac Surgery Cardiothoracic Surgery Show Less	Hartford
Al Rameni, Dina, MD 860.696.5520	Cardiac Surgery	Hartford
Sriramoju, Vindhya, MD 401.596.4499	Cardiovascular Medicine Echocardiography Nuclear Cardiology Show Less	Westerly