Patient Care — Complex acquired heart disease surgery

Patient appointments & physician referrals: please call 210-450-0999.

Bypass operations, redo bypass operations, Ross
procedures, valve replacement surgery, valve repair surgery: Acquired
heart disease surgery involves coronary bypass operations, valve
replacement and repair operations, as well as more complex cardiac
operations involving redo operations and aortic root replacements.
Edward Sako, MD, PhD,
specializes in mitral valve repair surgery, which,
when possible, may be preferable when replacement with an artificial
valve is otherwise the only alternative. This may be particularly
desirable when the patient is young or otherwise unable to take the
blood-thinning medicines that mitral valve replacement (with an
artificial valve) would otherwise require. Complex aortic root
surgeries, including homograft root replacements or Ross procedures, are
performed routinely by
John Calhoon, MD. Transmyocardial laser
revascularization, a new technology that can be applied to patients
needing myocardial revascularization but who are unable to undergo
conventional bypass surgery, is also available.
Seenu Reddy, MD, MBA, is
specially trained in endovascular surgery for the thoracic aorta and
advanced techniques for repair and replacing the ascending aorta and
great vessels.

Patient appointments & physician referrals: please call 210-450-0999.

Ed Sako, MD, PhD |
John Calhoon, MD |
Seenu Reddy, MD, MBA