Yale Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Heart Transplantation

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The Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplantation provides comprehensive evaluation, management and treatment for patients with heart failure. Patients have access to the full spectrum of life-saving heart care, ranging from the least-invasive drug therapies to state-of-the art surgery, including transplant.

The Center is often among the first in the country to use new medicines, procedures and devices for every degree of heart failure and is involved in multiple clinical trials.

Multispecialty Collaboration

The Center's multidisciplinary team is composed of specialists representing every aspect of cardiac care, including heart failure cardiologists, electrophysiologists, cardiac surgeons, as well as dedicated nurse practitioners, nurse coordinators, pharmacists, financial counselors, a social worker, a dietician, palliative care specialists, transplant immunologists, intensivists, psychologists and exercise physiologists.

Our goal is to provide each patient a tailored plan of treatment addressing their physical, mental and emotional needs with nurse-led clinics, telemanagement, nutrition counseling and social services.

LVAD as a permanent solution

Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) has received certification from the Joint Commission - the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care - to implant left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) into patients with end-stage heart failure as a permanent or destination therapy, not just as a temporary bridge to transplant.

Director: Abeel Mangi, MD

Treatment options available to patients include:

Evaluation and medical tailored therapy for advanced heart failure
Cardiac resynchronization therapy
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Ablation therapy for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias
High risk coronary revascularization and valve repair in carefully selected patients
Complex and reoperative heart operations
Cardiac transplantation
Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Septal myectomy and surgical treatment of left ventricular out-flow tract obstruction
Advanced care planning
Opportunity for participation in a wide range of clinical research activities
Monthly support and education classes
Cardiac rehabilitation for patients living with heart failure

Bellumkonda, Lavanya, MD	Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)	(203) 785-2309 Appts (203) 737-6014 Fax
Bonde, Pramod, MD	Assistant Professor of Surgery (Section of Cardiac Surgery); Surgical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support; Associate Program Director Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program	(203) 785-6122 Appts (203) 785-3346 Fax
Dries, Daniel Lee, MD, MPH	Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Medical Director, Yale Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation	(203) 785-7191 Appts
Goldstein, Daniel Robert, MBBS	Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Immunobiology	(203) 785-7191 Appts (203) 785-2917 Fax
Jacoby, Daniel Louis, MD	Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director, Cardiomyopathy Program; Associate Program Director, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant	(203) 737-4551 Appts (203) 785-2917 Fax
Lee, Forrester Ashe, MD	Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs	(203) 785-7191 Appts (203) 785-2917 Fax
Mangi, Abeel A., MD	Assistant Professor of Surgery (Section of Cardiac Surgery); Surgical Director, Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplantation	(203) 785-5252 Appts (203) 785-3346 Fax
Yuh, David Daiho, MD	Professor of Surgery (Section of Cardiac Surgery); Section Chief	(203) 785-3000 Appts (203) 785-3346 Fax