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Tufts Medical Center's Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Center in Boston has pioneered innovative inpatient and outpatient heart failure treatments for over 20 years. Tufts Medical Center researchers are investigating novel approaches to treating patients with the entire range of cardiac problems, from asymptomatic cardiac dysfunction to end-stage heart failure. We work in close conjunction with community- based primary care providers and cardiologists in charting the optimal diagnostic and heart failure treatment strategy for each patient.
The Center's staff has played a key role in developing the national guidelines for care of patients during heart failure treatment.
Services include:
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Assistance with diagnosis and medical management
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State-of-the-art contemporary treatments for advanced heart failure including ventricular assist devices (VADS) and cardiac transplantation
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Specialized physiological testing to aid in diagnostic dilemmas, including gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, measurement of maximal oxygen consumption/anaerobic threshold and exercise hemodynamics. These tests are used to distinguish between cardiac and non-cardiac causes for functional impairment, to identify the potential benefit of revascularization procedures in high-risk patients as well as to assess the appropriateness and timing of cardiac transplant
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Research trials examine the role of new drugs and new procedures are ongoing at all times.
Tufts Medical Center has performed cardiac transplantation since 1985, and over the last 2 years we have had the highest volume of heart transplantation in New England.
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Cardiac transplantation is offered to eligible patients for whom this mode of treatment represents the best option. The Center's cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons work collaboratively in managing these patients, along with a highly experienced team of nurses and other care providers who meet frequently to assist in this team-based approach to care.
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Tufts Medical Center takes pride in meeting all the needs of patients and their families, both medically and emotionally. Continuity of care with patients’ home physicians is a vital part of our program. Before and after transplantation, the Center's entire team works closely with primary care physicians and community-based physicians to coordinate care and optimize patient function and lifestyle
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For patients requiring in-patient care, the Cardiomyopathy Center is a unique, highly specialized nursing unit dedicated to the care of heart failure patients where our in-patients, including the pre- and post-operative transplant and VAD patients, are cared for.
For more information or to schedule an appointment at Tufts Medical Center's Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantion Center, please call 617-636-6137.
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