Heart Failure Program

About the Cardiomyopathy Center

Learn More About Heart Failure

Partnership with Community Providers

The multidisciplinary Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program (AHFTP) at UCSD Medical Center is part of the UCSD Cardiomyopathy Center and is dedicated to providing the most beneficial, state-of-the-art, yet cost-effective medical care for patients with advanced heart failure.
Diagnostic and treatment options offered by the AHFTP are extensive, including:	Learn more about Heart Failure in this 13-minute video presentation

• Evaluation and medical treatment of heart failure
• Investigational drugs and devices
• Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using bi-ventricular pacemakers
• Implantable cardioverters/defibrillators (ICDs)
• Ablation therapy for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias
• Cardiac transplantation
• Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs)
• Cardiac surgery in high risk patients including off-pump coronary revascularization
• Mitral valve repair in patients with cardiac dysfunction
• 3-D and contrast echocardiography
• MRI imaging of the heart

Treatment is provided from a group of internationally renowned figures in heart failure, electrophysiology, cardiac imaging and cardiothoracic surgery, including:

• Dr. Barry Greenberg*
• Dr. Denise Barnard*
• Dr. Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green
• Dr. Greg Feld*
• Dr. Michael Madani
• Dr. Stuart Jamieson*
• Dr. Anthony DeMaria*

*indicates that this physician has been selected as one of "America's Best Doctors"

Support The Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center

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Building the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center will depend on the continuing philanthropic support of donors who in this spirit believe UCSD is armed to triumph in the future.

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