{"id":35787,"date":"2022-11-29T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=35787"},"modified":"2022-11-30T20:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:07:53","slug":"saint-alphonsus-heart-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/11\/29\/saint-alphonsus-heart-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute Joins Our Community!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am very excited to announce that Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute<\/a> in Boise, Idaho just became the newest sponsor of HeartValveSurgery.com.<\/p>\n

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Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute delivers compassionate, high-quality cardiovascular care to heart valve patients. Led by Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar<\/a>, Medical Director of the Saint Alphonsus Cardiothoracic Surgery Program, the heart valve experts at Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute have extensive experience performing surgical, minimally-invasive and non-invasive procedures including transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute is excited to join forces with HeartValveSurgery.com,\u201d states Dr. Farivar. \u201cThrough education, I believe we will collectively help many patients get the best possible outcomes for their specific valvular defect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Dr.<\/a>Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar<\/a><\/p>\n

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Advancing Minimally-Invasive Heart Valve Care<\/h2>\n

The Structural Heart Program at Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute is advancing the use and research of new technologies to treat heart valve disease with minimally-invasive therapies.<\/p>\n

For example, Dr. Farivar was named the Site Principal Investigator of the SUMMIT clinical trial, which uses a novel transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) technique.<\/p>\n

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