Aortic Valve Stenosis Or Insufficiency

Aortic Valve Stenosis Aortic Valve Stenosis is a serious condition that causes the aortic valve to become too tight and barely open. The heart is forced to work very hard to push fresh blood through the narrow opening.   At onset of this disease, the heart can...

Advanced Heart Surgery

Advanced heart surgery techniques continue to shape and evolve our cardiac specialty, giving patients more options and better results than traditional surgery. Dr. Ciuffo uses highly sophisticated and effective minimally invasive techniques to treat heart disease very...

No Sternotomy Scars!

One of the major benefits of minimally invasive heart surgery is that there are no huge sternotomy scars! Dr. Ciuffo performs his minimally invasive procedures with long, thin surgical tools through a small incision, usually about two inches long. There is no need...