Center for Advanced Heart Failure Treatment

Put your heart back into life

The importance of managing heart failure

Heart failure. Also called congestive heart failure, it’s one of the fastest growing health problems in the country, with people of all ages experiencing its life-changing effects. But with specialized care, people with heart failure often experience a higher quality of life. In many cases, treatment can slow the progression of the disease. It can also help people avoid hospitalization and may help those with heart failure live longer, more satisfying lives.

A comprehensive approach to heart failure

The Center for Advanced Heart Failure Treatment brings together a team who specializes in heart failure and understands how to manage it. The team works closely with each patient, the patient's primary care doctor and the patient's family. This coordinated approach focuses on the individual needs of each patient and family and helps them live with heart failure more comfortably and easily.

Patients benefit from having a full range of services that are easy to access. This includes diagnostic tests, medicines, help with lifestyle changes and many types of surgery.

Because heart failure can profoundly affect how patients and families live their lives, the Center emphasizes education and support. It sponsors one of the only heart failure support groups in the state.

Offering advanced treatments

The Center also can offer advanced treatments like clinical trials, stem cell therapy, specialized surgeries, ventricular assist devices (VAD), and heart transplants.

The Center for Advanced Heart Failure Treatment is one of only a few programs dedicated to the care of people with heart failure. As part of that commitment, the Center is an active participant in clinical trials designed to evaluate new therapies for treating heart failure.

These trials may involve new medicines, lifestyle changes (like diet and exercise recommendations), therapies for heart rhythm problems or surgeries. Such research is essential to advancing the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. 

As a research location, the Center has direct and rapid access to clinical breakthroughs and advances. This means our patients are among the first to benefit from the latest research.

The Center for Advanced Heart Failure Treatment team includes:

• Cardiologists specializing in heart failure direct the patient’s care and use the latest in diagnostic tests and treatments to provide individualized care for heart failure patients.
• Certified Nurse Practitioners specializing in heart failure work closely with patients, families and primary care physicians to coordinate care plans and treatment options.
  
• Cardiovascular surgeons offer advanced surgical procedures, including valve repair, coronary bypass, ventricular assist devices, and heart transplants.
• Multidisciplinary Team members like cardiac transplant coordinators, exercise physiologists, nurses, dietitians, social workers and support staff help to address the complex needs of patients and families.
  

If you or someone you love has heart failure, talk to your doctor about the Center for Advanced Heart Failure Treatment at the Minneapolis Heart Institute®, or call 612-863-3900 for more information.