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 The Center for Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation opened in 1990 and since that time, has been a national leader in providing therapies that improve heart failure. In 2000, the Adult Congenital Heart Clinic further broadened the scope of care offered in the Center. Our 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 the care of advanced heart failure. 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.
The Heart Transplant Program has been in existence at Emory University Hospital since 1985 when it performed the first heart transplant in Georgia. Today our patient survival rates are among the best in the country. Emory’s transplant program has an experienced multi-disciplinary team highly skilled in the care of heart transplant candidates and recipients. This team includes the Center’s cardiologists, a transplant surgeon, transplant coordinators, a social worker, psychiatrist, psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, pharmacist, clinical nutritionist, physical therapist, chaplain, staff nurses and a financial coordinator. Each member of this team offers a specialized service in the care of our transplant patients.
Our Center is exceptionally experienced in the ability to support patients on artificial heart pumps, known as ventricular assist devices. With over 684 heart transplants performed by our renowned cardiothoracic surgeons, you can be sure that if you receive a transplant at Emory, you'll get the most innovative and sophisticated care this country has to offer.
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