Emory Centers for Heart Failure Therapy
Did you know that the Emory Centers for Heart Failure Therapy offer a unique program in Georgia dedicated to the treatment of patients with severe heart failure?
We follow over 1,500 patients who have severe cardiac dysfunction and see approximately 30 new patients each month who have congestive heart failure (CHF).
Emory cardiologists have the largest clinical experience in evaluating and implanting biventricular pacemakers — devices which offer hope to many people with severe CHF. Known as cardiac resynchronization therapy, the pacemakers stimulate the heart's ventricles to beat at the same time, improving the heart's ability to increase blood flow to the body. More than 800 of these devices have been implanted inpatients with CHF at Emory Hospitals — more than any other medical center in the world. Documented results have included a dramatic improvement in quality of life, exercise tolerance and heart function.
We offer not only the most advanced high tech and medical therapies, but also comprehensive patient and family education.
The Emory Heart Transplant Program and Heart Failure Treatment is seeing a significant decrease in the numbers of patients on the transplant waiting list due to improved therapy for CHF.
The Emory Centers for Heart Failure Therapy are currently involved in a number of clinical trials, including a multi-center National Institutes of Health sponsored study of cardiac rehabilitation treatment strategies.
Our Heart Transplant Program has performed over 400 adult heart transplants. Emory performed 85 percent of adult heart transplants in the state last year.
In 1999, J. David Vega, MD, Director of the Heart and Lung Transplant Program at Emory University Hospital (EUH) performed Georgia's first dual pump ventricular assist device (VAD) implant. The device serves as a bridge to heart transplantation, pumping blood for the left and right ventricles of the heart.
For more information, contact the Centers for Heart Failure Therapy at
Emory Clifton Road 404-778-5544 | Emory University Hospital Midtown 404-686-7885
