Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program
Dr. Edward M. Gilbert is director of the transplant and heart failure program at the University of Utah's Cardiovascular Clinic. He works with Dr. Feras Bader, Dr. Josef Stehlik and the Heart Failure Team to treat patients with heart failure. They work with the Cardiac Transplant Team to screen patients for transplantation and are involved in the care of inpatients before and immediately after transplant surgery. Daily outpatient clinics provide long-term management of heart failure and post-transplant patients. Kirk Volkman, NP, works with patients to manage their health and heart failure symptoms.
Heart Failure Program
Our innovative Heart Failure program provides inpatient and outpatient care for patients with severe heart failure, including stabilizing some who will eventually require cardiace transplantations. Innovative medical regimens, including the use of investigational drugs, are available for those patients unresponsive to conventional medical therapy. This allows important basic and clinical research on the mechanisms and management of heart failure to be performed. Also, many people with advanced heart failure are living longer and bridging to transplant with the assistance of the Left Ventricular Assist Device, or LVAD, which is surically implanted into the failing heart ventricle to help the heart pump blood.
- Contact the Heart Failure Clinic at 801-585-5122, or email Jerri.
- Learn more about the Cardiovascular Center's Heart Failure Program.
- Learn more about Division of Cardiology Clinical Trials.
Heart Transplant
In 1985, the Division of Cardiology and the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery initiated a multidepartment, multihospital program under the name of the Utah Transplantation Affiliated Hospitals (UTAH) Cardiac Transplant Program, consisting of LDS Hospital, Primary Children's Medical Center, University Hospital, and the Salt Lake City Veterans Administration Medical Center. To date, 1000 cardiac transplantations have been performed. Immediate and long-term survival rates have been outstanding, and the program is a national leader in the development of effective, safe immunosuppression strategies.
- Contact the Heart Transplant Clinic at 801-585-3693, or email Jean.
- Learn more about the UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program.
- Learn more about the Cardiovascular Center's Heart Transplant Program.
