Jeremy Leidenfrost, MD, is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Luke's Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Dr. Leidenfrost earned his medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency and cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Dr. Leidenfrost treats a variety of conditions relating to the heart, lungs, chest and blood vessels including coronary artery bypass and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
His special interests include minimally-invasive approaches in aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, septal myectomy, aortic aneurysms, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and the Cox-Maze procedure for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
St. Luke's cardiothoracic surgeons' core mission is to provide all of our heart and lung patients and their families with the best possible care - through outstanding surgical results as well as comprehensive and compassionate care. In more than 30 years, we have performed over 15,000 major heart and lung surgeries.
We are leaders in off-pump or "beating-heart" procedures in which cardiothoracic surgeons operate on the beating heart, without putting the patient on a heart/lung machine. No other hospital in the greater St. Louis area performs more beating-heart procedures.