Patients with heart failure may experience no symptoms or they may have severe symptoms which tremendously limit their ability to perform activities of daily living and work. Treatment of heart failure includes the use of medications, limited procedures, counseling and possibly surgery. Patients in the early stages of heart failure are most frequently treated with medications, limited procedures (such as special pacemakers including cardiac resynchronization therapy) and counseling (including learning how to reduce salt intake) while patients with advanced heart failure may require surgery (perhaps heart transplantation).
The Center for Heart Failure offers the latest in medical management for patients with all stages of heart failure. Our world renowned team of expert physicians evaluate the severity of heart failure and recommend a course of therapy (based on state-of-art guidelines for medical management of heart failure) in order to reduce symptoms, improve function, enhance quality of life and improve survival. John B O'Connell MD, an internationally recognized cardiologist, is the director of the Center for Heart Failure. Dr. O'Connell is joined by Patrick McCarthy, MD, an internationally renowned cardiovascular surgeon, Edwin McGee, MD and William Cotts, MD, to provide leadership and expertise in managing this debilitating disease. These physicians lead an expert disease management team of nurse practitioners, dieticians, cardiac rehabilitation specialists, pharmacists, psychologists and social workers. This heart failure team is dedicated to the total care of heart failure patients in a coordinated, highly skilled and compassionate manner.
Contact
For more information regarding medical management of heart failure available through the Center for Heart Failure, call the
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at (866) 662-8467, or request an appointment online.
