The Imaging for Structural Heart Interventions Fellowship Program at Mount Sinai Hospital is designed to provide qualified applicants with the imaging skills for various aspects of percutaneous structural and valve interventions. It is a one-year fellowship after a formal completion of a general cardiology fellowship training program. Graduates of our training program are expected to be fully proficient in high quality advanced imaging of all aspects of structural heart intervention such as:
- Transeptal puncture
- Balloon aortic and mitral valvuloplasty (BAV and BMV)
- Alcohol Septal Ablation (ASA)
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
- Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair (mitral clip) and Replacement (TMVr & TMVR)
- Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair and Replacement
- Valve in Valve (ViV) Procedures
- Paravalvular Leak Closure (mitral and aortic)
- Left Atrial Appendage Closure
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)/ Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closure
We have a busy academic schedule with regular educational activities, which include case presentations, CCT/CMR and TTE/TEE review, and research meetings. The Mount Sinai Cath lab performs over 400 structural interventions every year. The Fellow will master the state of the art imaging techniques required for the evaluation, procedural planning, and management of patients before, during and after the structural heart interventions. The Fellow can expect to assume progressive responsibility as the time goes one and become an independent operator by the end of the fellowship.