Emory’s Heart Transplant Program & Heart Failure Therapy
The Center for Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation opened in 1990 and since that time, has been a national leader in providing heart transplant surgery as well as therapies that improve heart failure. In 2000, the Adult Congenital Heart Clinic further broadened the scope of care offered in the Center with additional systematic heart failure therapy options. The Center's comprehensive evaluation and treatment includes options such as medical therapy, FDA-regulated investigational drugs and devices, cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgery, and in select patients, heart transplantation.
The Center staffs six full-time cardiologists with extensive training and experience in advanced heart failure therapy. In addition, the Center’s heart failure nurses share a similar expertise. They see the patients during each office visit and are responsible for a comprehensive patient education program and telephone triage. The Adult Congenital program has a nurse practitioner that sees patients during each office visit and is responsible for patient education and involved in all follow-up care.
Heart Failure Therapy Care at Emory
The Heart Transplant Program has been in existence at Emory University Hospital since 1985 when it performed the first heart transplant in Georgia. Today, the patient survival rates are among the best in the country. Emory’s heart transplant program has an experienced multi-disciplinary team highly skilled in the care of heart transplant candidates and recipients. This team includes cardiologists, a transplant surgeon, transplant coordinators, a social worker, mental health specialists, a pharmacist, a clinical nutritionist, a physical therapist, a chaplain, staff nurses, and a financial coordinator. Each member of this team offers a specialized service in the care of our transplant patients as well as in heart failure therapy.
Our Center is exceptionally experienced in the ability to support patients on artificial heart pumps, known as ventricular assist devices. With over 700 heart transplants performed by our renowned cardiothoracic surgeons, you can be sure that if you receive heart transplant surgery at Emory, you'll get the most innovative and sophisticated care this country has to offer.
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