Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplant, and Mechanical Circulatory Support
When you have heart failure, you deserve to have a world-class medical team on your side, prepared to treat the condition no matter how complex. At Stanford Health Care, our internationally recognized experts provide unique insights into your heart care and deliver the latest diagnosis and treatment options for all types of heart failure and lead the way in research to advance care. Choosing Stanford Health Care for heart failure care means receiving state-of-the-art heart care to get you back to living your best life.
Our team of experts has specialized training in heart failure and have dedicated their careers to deeply understanding and effectively treating this condition. We take on the most complex heart failure cases that other health centers consider too challenging to treat. If medication therapy isn’t working, then we can assess whether heart transplantation or left ventricular assist devices will help.
We play a key role in medical research and device trials, paving the way for lifesaving discoveries. Our experts’ training and research, combined with our team approach to care, help you get back to your life as soon as possible.
Our heart failure experts have extensive expertise in delivering treatment for all types and stages of heart failure:
Systolic heart failure (heart failure with reduced ejection fraction): The heart muscle is weak and cannot pump blood, which can result from:
Diastolic heart failure (heart failure with preserved ejection fraction): The heart is stiff and cannot relax properly, which can result from:
Heart valve disease from either leaky (regurgitation) valves, tight (stenotic) valves, or both, including:
Congenital heart disease, an abnormal development of the heart that occurs during pregnancy before a baby is born. Congenital heart problems range from routine to complex.
Our heart failure experts work closely with you to help you manage the condition so you can live your life to the fullest. Our team of highly trained heart failure cardiologists collaborate with Stanford colleagues in many fields of medicine:
At Stanford, we take a unique approach by collaborating with heart specialists from many different clinics to treat the many causes of heart failure. No other health center offers the number and spectrum of specialized clinics to treat heart failure and the conditions that cause it. Our clinics expand your access to other Stanford specialists, opening doors to options and healing.
HEART DISEASE IS PREVENTABLE.
As world leaders in heart failure care, we combine expertise and technology to deliver the most advanced diagnosis and treatment options available.
The symptoms of heart failure are commonly mistaken for those of other conditions. Our experts are dedicated to getting to the bottom of your health concerns as quickly as possible so treatment can begin.
Whether you come to our program with a diagnosis or not, we will perform testing to confirm or refine the diagnosis. We offer all available tests for diagnosing heart failure, such as blood tests, heart function tests, and cardiac imaging. Your doctor will recommend the testing necessary to design a care plan tailored to you.
Diagnostic program highlights include:
Treating Heart Failure
Our specialized cardiologists and other experts offer a full range of heart failure treatment options that leverage the latest technology. Our experts proudly participate in research to advance many of these treatments. Your doctor will work with you to determine the right options for you.
Our treatments include:
As world leaders in heart failure care, we combine expertise and technology to deliver the most advanced diagnosis and treatment options available.
The symptoms of heart failure are commonly mistaken for those of other conditions. Our experts are dedicated to getting to the bottom of your health concerns as quickly as possible so treatment can begin.
Whether you come to our program with a diagnosis or not, we will perform testing to confirm or refine the diagnosis. We offer all available tests for diagnosing heart failure, such as blood tests, heart function tests, and cardiac imaging. Your doctor will recommend the testing necessary to design a care plan tailored to you.
Diagnostic program highlights include:
Treating Heart Failure
Our specialized cardiologists and other experts offer a full range of heart failure treatment options that leverage the latest technology. Our experts proudly participate in research to advance many of these treatments. Your doctor will work with you to determine the right options for you.
Our treatments include:
Each person with heart failure, no matter what type and stage, has concerns about their health, comfort, and life. Our team will surround you with the individualized support you need to navigate your care journey with confidence. And we will help you and your loved ones understand the condition, treatments, and ways to support you as you manage the condition.
The Heart Transplant Program at Stanford Health Care remains a national leader. In 2022, the number of adult heart transplants performed by the Stanford Medicine team was 74 in addition to the 11 heart-lung transplant, with a calendar year total of 85 transplants.
A team of heart surgeons and health care specialists from the Stanford Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery recently performed their first reported heart transplant on a patient using a COVID-19 positive donor.
We offer one of the nation’s most robust clinical trial programs for heart failure. These research studies evaluate new medical approaches, devices, drugs, and other treatments.
As a Stanford Health Care patient, you may be eligible to participate in open clinical trials. Open trials refer to studies currently recruiting participants or that may recruit participants in the near future. Closed trials are not currently enrolling, but similar studies may open in the future.
As an academic medical center, we not only apply research and leading-edge technology to our care, but we are also at the forefront of creating it.
Over the years, Stanford’s research contributions have led to many medical breakthroughs and transformative discoveries. One of those breakthroughs that touches heart failure care includes our performing the first successful heart transplant in the United States in 1968.
Stanford Health Care provides comprehensive services to refer and track patients, as well as the latest information and news for physicians and office staff. For help with all referral needs and questions, visit Referring Physicians.
You may also submit a web referral or complete a referral form and fax it to 650-320-9443 or email the Referral Center at ReferralCenter@stanfordhealthcare.org.
Call Val Cannon at 650-724-4942.
To make an appointment with one of our specialists, call 650-724-4942.
