Heart Failure
HOW TO REFER A PATIENT
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
The UAB Advanced Heart Failure Program offers a comprehensive range of medical management expertise, surgical options, and mechanical circulatory support devices, including one of the region’s most active left ventricular assist device (LVAD) programs. Our services are well suited for patients with:
- Heart failure symptoms despite medical therapy
- Frequent hospitalizations for decompensated heart failure
- Impaired quality of life due to heart failure
- Evidence of end organ involvement, such as renal failure or liver congestion
- End-stage coronary disease not eligible for revascularization
- Ventricular tachycardia and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks unresponsive to therapy
FEATURED EDUCATION
Heart Failure Guidelines and Program
July 3, 2017
July 3, 2020
Cardiologists and healthcare professionals
Learning Objective / Overview: Sumanth Prabhu, MD, director of the division of cardiovascular disease, and Jose Tallaj, MD, professor of medicine in the division of cardiovascular disease discuss the advanced heart failure program and the types of patients that could benefit from the disease management offered at UAB Medicine. Upon completion of this CME activity, participants should be able to understand the overall disease burden of advanced heart failure, discuss the clinical predictors of prognosis and mortality in heart failure, and define the indications for patient evaluation by a specialized advanced heart failure and transplant program.
Accreditation statement:The University of Alabama School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Alabama School of Medicine designates this online enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure: Dr. Prabhu has the following financial relationships with commercial interests: Sanofi GenzymeDr. Prabhu does not intend to discuss the off-label use of a product. No other speakers, planners or content reviewers have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. There is no commercial support for this activity.