Heart Center

Heart Center Homepage: The leaders in treating difficult heart conditions, including rhythm problems, heart failure and coronary artery disease.

Restoring and Protecting Your Heart

UVA's Heart Center is home to some of the most respected cardiologists, heart surgeons and care teams in the field.

We're the leaders in treating difficult cardiac conditions, including rhythm disorders, heart failure and coronary artery disease.

Your Heart Team

We operate one of the largest and most active heart care centers in the region, but we still give each patient a personalized care plan.

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Heart Centers: Specialized Treatment

• Heart Rhythm Center, to treat complex heart rhythm problems

• Cardiac Valve Center, for patients with aortic, mitral and pulmonary valve disease

• Heart Failure and Transplant Center, for all stages of the disease

• UVA Club Red Clinic, the region’s first heart care clinic for women

Shorter, Safer Procedures
We have the world's first IMRIS imaging therapy suite for structural heart disease. This technology lets us get better views of your heart and blood vessels without taking X-rays.

Worried About Open Heart Surgery?

We’re constantly working to develop and improve less invasive procedures for cardiac care. That means many procedures that once involved open heart surgery are done with smaller incisions and shorter hospital stays.

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Our Heart Surgery Expertise Includes:

Surgeons and cardiologists who provide care to over a thousand patients every year
More chest surgery operations than any other program in the state and more than most in the nation
A busy congenital heart program with excellent results compared with national norms
A specialization in reoperative (or "redo") heart surgery