Lindsey Prescher

Lindsey Prescher, DO

Specialties:

Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Valley Health Provider

Accepted Insurance & Health Plans

About

Lindsey Prescher, DO, is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with over a decade of advanced clinical, academic, and military leadership experience. Before coming to Valley Health, she served as the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Surgical Director of Structural Heart at Adventist White Oak Medical Center.

She completed her Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine, followed by an additional year of advanced training as a Fellow in Structural Heart Disease at Yale.

Dr. Prescher specializes in the full spectrum of adult cardiac disease, with particular expertise in complex and minimally invasive valve repair and replacement procedures, aortic pathology, and transcatheter therapies (including TAVR, TEER, and TMVR).

Dr. Prescher is deeply committed to a collaborative, patient-centered approach to care, with a focus on improving functional outcomes and overall quality of life for every patient she treats.

Affiliations

  • Valley Health Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Winchester Medical Center

Areas of Interest:

  • Aortic, mitral, tricuspid valve repair or replacement
  • Aortic aneurysm surgical and surveillance management
  • Transcatheter aortic and mitral valve therapies
  • Coronary artery bypass grafting
  • Cardiac tumors and adult congenital cardiac surgery
  • Minimally invasive cardiac surgery and innovation

Locations

Education

Fellowship

Yale New Haven Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery Yale New Haven Hospital Structural Heart and Interventional Cardiology

Internship

Naval Medical Center General Surgery

Residency

Naval Medical Center General Surgery

Medical School

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

Undergraduate School

University of St. Thomas

Publications

2024

Coronary Artery Obstruction After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Past, Present, and Future.

Author: Ibrahim H, Chaus A, Alkhalil A, Prescher LM, Kleiman N.

Publisher: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2024.

2022

Risk factors and mortality associated with permanent pacemaker after surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement: Early versus late implantation.

Author: Mahmood SUB, Mori M, Amabile A, Prescher LM, Forrest J.

Publisher: Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 2022.

2021

BACTEREMIA AND MITRAL VALVE ENDOCARDITIS SECONDARY TO INFECTED ESTRADIOL VAGINAL RING.

2021

Author: Looney T, Anderson E, Prescher L, Crimm H. MSSA

Publisher: Journal of The American College of Cardiology

 

The Current State of Coronary Revascularization: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery.

Author: Brown M, Klusewitz S, Elefteriades JA, Prescher LM.

Publisher: International Journal of Angiology. 2021.

 

Early Mitral Valve Repair Failure in the Setting of Endocarditis When to Reoperate?

Author: Weber LA, Geirsson A, Prescher L.

Publisher: JACC Case Reports 2021, 3: 707-711. PMID: 34317610, PMCID: PMC8311157, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.12.043

2020

Correlation of Indirect Markers of Hypercoagulability With … Thrombosis Research. 2020.

Author: Hightower S, Verleden SE, Prescher LM, et al.

Publisher: (Abstract / report)

2017

Lobectomy Procedure Patient Guidelines 2017 update View Publication

Review of the literature over the past 15 years. Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports 2015, 3: 554-562. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsc.2015.10.006.

Author: Prescher L, Butler W, Vachon T, Henry M, Latendresse T, Ignacio R. Fetus in fetu