Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation

The Temple Heart Center’s multi-disciplinary approach is staffed by more than a hundred caregivers. This experienced team of physicians, nurses, therapists and other professionals enables Temple to handle the most complex cardiac cases, providing everything your heart needs from diagnosis to emergency treatments to transplantation.

Having managed thousands of patients with advanced heart failure, Temple Heart Center staff is proud to offer the world's most advanced treatments. The goal at Temple is to tailor treatment to each individual patient, exhausting every possible option before turning to device implantation, surgery, or transplant. New drug trials, minimally invasive therapies, and cardiac rehabilitation are key components when providing the safest and most appropriate course of treatment for each patient.

Today, we have experience with over 200 mechanical assist device patients, and continue to treat critically ill heart failure patients with these life-saving pumps, offering patients improved quality of life whether the indication is bridge to recovery, bridge to transplant or destination therapy. We also use several home infusion protocols to allow patients to maintain a stable heart status when oral medications are no longer adequate.

Temple performed the first heart transplant in the Delaware Valley in 1984 and the first heart-lung transplant in 1988. Surgeons at our hospital have performed more transplants than most national centers in addition to handling some of the country’s most complicated cases. Our integrated cardiopulmonary transplant team performs complex heart-lung transplants only a few centers in the country are capable of. With an extensive, proprietary database at our fingertips, we have the ability to compare cases across a span of almost 1,000 transplant patients.

Our team consists of a multidisciplinary group of over twenty specialists and sub-specialists who ensure quality patient care from initial evaluation through the post-transplant period. Patients with co-morbidities also benefit from the expertise of multiple specialists experienced in the care of transplanted patients. We currently manage over 500 post-transplant patients, some of whom have been with us for over 15 years.

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