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George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure has been active
and successful making many significant achievements including:
- Innovative new
surgical and medical therapies for heart failure
- The Cardiac Transplant
Program continues to be recognized as the one of the top three programs
in the United States in terms of both volume and outcomes.
- Creation of a
heart failure patient management program
- An extraordinary
number of scientific publications International and national presentations
at all major scientific assemblies
- Kaufman Center
personnel are in leadership positions in the most prominent medical,
surgical and transplant professional societies
The Kaufman Center
for Heart Failure continues to attract new patient referrals seeking precise
diagnosis and cutting edge medical or surgical therapies for heart failure.
Clinical Research
The Kaufman Center
for Heart Failure is involved in a wide spectrum of clinical research
activities that focus on the challenges presented by both patients with
heart failure and those who have undergone heart transplantation. These
projects range from single center research efforts to participation in
multi center clinical trials.
Basic Research
The Kaufman Center
for Heart Failure supports a variety of innovative studies to determine
the cause and effects of heart failure and point us in the direction of
future therapeutic approaches.
- Dr.
Christine Moravec,
Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine:
Investigation of sub-cellular events associated with end-stage heart
failure and the potential for recovery. Also interested in Alterations
in excitation-contraction coupling in the failing heart and the possibility
of reversing changes by mechanical unloading.
- Dr.
David VanWagoner,
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine: Electrophysiology studies
to determine the sub-cellular basis for atrial fibrillation and for
the increased arrhythmia associated with heart failure. See
Department of Molecular Cardiology
- Dr.
Kiyotaka Fukamachi,
The collaboration of surgeons in the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
and Dr. Kiyo Fukamchi in the Department of Biomedical Engineering has
produced innovative new blood pump technology. The National Institutes
of Health has just awarded a two multi-million dollar grants titled
"PediPump," A Versatile, Implantable Pediatric Ventricular
Assist Device” and “Development and Clinical Testing of
CorAide RVAD/BVAD” to Dr. Fukamachi. See
Department of Biomedical Engineering
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