The UAB Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program takes a unique, multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing heart failure, a condition that affects some 450,000 people each year, and directing patients from around the country to appropriate therapy so that they may live longer with improved quality of life

Cardiologists at UAB have developed extensive experience in the assessment, diagnosis and therapy of patients with severe heart failure. In addition to conventional and usual therapy, there exists a wide range of experimental therapies for patients who do not respond to more conventional treatment.

The service provides:

Access to the most comprehensive diagnostic methods available anywhere to establish the reasons for heart failure and to evaluate therapy

Initial treatment recommendations

Long-term recommendations and follow-up care

Since 1981, the UAB Cardiac Transplant Program has performed over 500 heart transplants and heart/lung transplant operations. With an excellent success rate, UAB has established itself as one of the top international centers. Patients are referred to UAB for heart transplantation from all over the world. In general, referral for therapy of severe heart failure, heart transplantation or heart/lung transplantation should be made by the patient’s primary physician.