St. Luke’s University Health Network is among the country’s leading heart and vascular centers, treating patients with conditions ranging from atrial fibrillation to blocked arteries, heart valve problems, and vascular disease.

Fortune and IBM Watson Health have named St. Luke’s one of the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in the United States for seven years.

Our team provides comprehensive care, including medicine therapy, minimally invasive procedures and surgery, high-tech devices and other innovations, through our advanced care programs at more than 20 physician practices throughout our network.

St. Luke’s cardiology and heart surgery program is rated the best in the Lehigh Valley and seventh in Pennsylvania in 2022-23, according to US News & World Report.

Structural Heart Program

St. Luke’s transcatheter aortic valve replacement program (TAVR) is one of the busiest, high-quality programs on the East Coast for replacing failing aortic valves.

We pioneered the use in the Lehigh Valley of the minimally invasive MitraClip™ device for treating persons with a weak or damaged mitral valve.

In 2021, St. Luke’s heart specialists introduced the Watchman FLX™ device for closing a “pocket” in the heart where blood clots can collect and cause a stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.

We were first in Northeastern Pennsylvania to pulverize solid heart artery blockages using Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) technology.

Cardiothoracic Surgery Program

Our board-certified surgeons perform more than 700 surgeries annually to bypass blocked coronary arteries, repair aortas, repair or replace heart valves, implant heart pumps and treat arrhythmias.

They introduce new surgical and nonsurgical treatments for heart disease, including TAVR for replacing aortic valves.

Interventional Cardiology

St. Luke’s operates cardiac catheterization laboratories where our cardiologists skillfully open narrowed coronary arteries using tiny balloons and stents. We treat heart attacks 24/7, with a typical “door-to-balloon time” of 60 minutes, under the 90-minute national standard of excellence.

Electrophysiology Program

Our board-certified electrophysiologists perform one of the highest volumes of procedures on the East Coast to treat atrial fibrillation and other irregular heart rhythms. They implant the most modern cardiac defibrillators, pacemakers and other devices to correct and maintain a healthy heartbeat.

Last year, they made medical history in this region by implanting the first leadless and retrievable pacemaker in a patient.

Advanced Heart Failure Program

Our heart failure team diagnoses and treats patients with weakened heart muscles using medicines, surgery, interventional procedures and devices that improve quality of life and survival. St. Luke’s heart specialists were among the nation’s first to implant the Optimizer device, stimulating a weak heart muscle to squeeze more strongly with each beat.

Our highly regarded Pulmonary Hypertension Program provides comprehensive care, which helps avoid right-heart failure.

Women’s Heart Center

St. Luke’s Women’s Heart Center offers cardiac care focused on the unique needs of women who have heart disease, are at risk for heart disease or want guidance for its prevention.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program

This program treats people with abnormally thick heart muscle, using genetic testing, medical therapy, surgery and devices to prevent life-threatening arrhythmias. We treat young athletes with this condition in conjunction with our sports medicine program.

Advanced Imaging Program

For noninvasive evaluation of heart disease, St Luke’s cardiologists use the most advanced technology, including ultrasound (echocardiogram), cardiac CT scan and cardiac MRI.

Vascular Center

St. Luke’s vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists collaborate to diagnose and treat conditions of the blood vessels outside the heart. Noninvasive testing of peripheral arteries and veins at our more than 20 nationally accredited vascular laboratories determines the best treatment.

St. Luke’s Vascular Center specialists repair diseased, enlarged and injured arteries using nonsurgical “endovascular” stent-graft technology in the hybrid operating rooms at the Allentown and Bethlehem campuses.

Our team of cardiac surgeons, vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists performs thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) to mend or replace diseased or ballooning tissue in the aorta in the chest. This often-lifesaving treatment is provided at both St. Luke’s Bethlehem and Allentown Campuses.

We offer transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR), using a catheter and a novel blood reversal technique to safely insert a stent in the neck’s carotid artery to prevent strokes.

For more information about St. Luke’s Heart & Vascular Center, or to make an appointment, visit sluhn.org/heart, or call 1-866-STLUKES (785-8537), option 4.