晚期心力衰竭

皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康 approach to advanced heart failure care

Our advanced heart failure program is an integrated service that provides specialist phone consultations 24 hours a day, 一年365天. 如果你有严重的心力衰竭, our specialists offer expert support and consultation to guide your care plan. They work directly with the Ahmanson/UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, 机械循环支撑中心及心脏移植中心.

我们课程的亮点包括:

及时评估和治疗: 如果你有严重的心力衰竭, your referring physician can speak with our attending cardiologist within five minutes. This prompt communication facilitates timely and appropriate evaluation and care.

研究护理: 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康 physicians have led the way in developing new medical therapies, devices and disease management strategies for heart failure. These advancements have significantly improved quality of life, reduced hospitalization risk and increased chances of survival.

直接联系专家: Our advanced heart failure service offers physicians direct access to experts who specialize in advanced heart failure, 带来更好的结果. We also accept referrals for patients who have had heart transplants or have a ventricular assist device (VAD) to support the heart’s pumping functions.

国家认可: Our medical centers have earned the American 心 Association’s Get With the Guidelines - 心 Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. This recognition highlights our commitment to comprehensive, high-quality heart failure care. We also rank among the top hospitals in the nation, with U.S. 皇冠hga025 & 世界报道 承认我们是No. 11 in the country for cardiology and heart surgery.

什么是晚期心力衰竭?

Advanced heart failure is a term for the most severe stage of heart failure. 心 failure occurs when your heart muscle can’t pump blood throughout the body as it should. Experts estimate that about one in 10 people with heart failure have advanced heart failure.

In advanced heart failure, you experience symptoms even while at rest, including:

乏力
心 palpitations, or feelings of your heart racing
食欲不振，恶心
持续的咳嗽
呼吸急促（气促）
Swelling and fluid buildup in your lower legs

我们提供先进的心力衰竭治疗

Advanced heart failure requires more aggressive treatment than heart failure in earlier stages. Treatments like lifestyle changes and medications don’t work to manage the symptoms of advanced heart failure. It is important to communicate openly with your provider about the risks and benefits of all treatment options.

Advanced heart failure treatment may include:

心脏再同步化治疗: A surgeon places a pacemaker underneath the skin with wires that connect to both lower heart chambers (ventricles). The pacemaker sends electrical signals to the heart’s ventricles to keep them beating in proper rhythm. This electrical stimulation is called biventricular pacing. Cardiac resynchronization therapy can help keep the heart beating as strongly as possible to improve blood flow throughout the body.

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD): An ICD is a small device placed beneath the skin. Like a pacemaker, it also has small wires that connect to the heart. If the ICD detects an irregular heart rhythm, it sends a small electrical shock to restore the heart’s normal rhythm. This helps the heart keep pumping blood throughout the body. Some people have an ICD in addition to a pacemaker.

心室辅助装置(VAD): A VAD is a device that helps the heart ventricles continue pumping blood. It often is used as a treatment to keep the heart working while patients wait for a heart transplant. A VAD requires open-heart surgery to place the device in the heart’s ventricles. The surgeon may place the VAD in either heart ventricle, 但它通常被放置在左侧, known as a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).

心脏移植: When the heart can no longer function properly on its own, patients may need a heart transplant. 移植过程中, a heart surgeon replaces the patient’s heart with a healthier one from an organ donor.

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Our specialists offer expert care for patients with advanced heart failure. We use state-of-the-art treatment options and may offer new treatments available through clinical trials. Our expert physicians are available 一年365天 to provide consultations for patients with advanced heart failure.