Advanced heart failure is a form of heart failure that has progressed to the most serious stage. Heart failure gets worse over time. There are four main stages, based on a patient’s risks and symptoms. Patients who have advanced heart failure are in the most severe stage of the disease.
Though this condition is serious, there is hope for patients with this disease. Our Advanced Heart Failure Program team provides early diagnosis and comprehensive treatment of advanced heart failure. No other team in the mid-Atlantic region matches our quality of care or patient outcomes. In 1988, MedStar Health became one of the first four hospitals to implant a ventricular assist device to help a weakened heartbeat better, and our heart transplant team was the first in our region in 1987.
We offer a wide spectrum of treatments for patients with advanced heart failure.
CardioMEMS™ remote patient monitoring
CardioMEMS™ provides pulmonary artery pressure remote monitoring using a small sensor.
Barostim™ heart assist device
A FDA-approved heart failure device that uses neuromodulation – the power of the brain and nervous system-to improve systems of patients with systolic heart failure.
Inotropic therapy
Inotropic therapy is an IV medication that can relieve symptoms and abnormal heart rhythms.
Learn More About Inotropic Therapy
Interventional heart failure treatment
Brings together heart failure and interventional cardiology, drawing expertise from both fields of practice. Many heart failure patients have aortic, mitral, and tricuspid heart valve defects, or develop it as a result.
Ventricular assist devices (VADs)
A ventricular assist device (VAD), also known as a mechanical circulatory support device, helps the heart pump blood more effectively during end-stage heart failure.
Heart transplant
A transplant replaces a diseased, failing heart with a healthier heart from a donor.
Learn More About Heart Transplant
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, pumps your blood through a machine so your heart doesn’t have to work as hard to deliver oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body.
Other heart failure treatment options
Treatments for heart failure such as medications, remote patient monitoring, mechanical devices, such as defibrillators and pacemakers, heart valve interventions, and surgery may vary based on the cause and severity of your condition.
Our providers
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Nana Afari-Armah, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Keki Balsara, MD
Cardiac Surgery
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Jennifer Rebecca Brown, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology & Cardiology
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Erika D Feller, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Richa Gupta, MD, MPH
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Mark R. Hofmeyer, MD, MS
Cardiology & Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Sandeep Mahendra Jani, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Ajay Kadakkal, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Rania Kaoukis, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Mrinalini Krishnan, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Phillip Hong Lam, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Samer Samir Najjar, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Miguel A Pinilla Vera, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Maria Esperanza Rodrigo, MBBS
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Farooq H. Sheikh, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Weining David Xu, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Our locations
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MedStar Washington Hospital Center
110 Irving St. NW Washington, DC 20010
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
201 E. University Pkwy. Baltimore, MD 21218
MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center
7503 Surratts Rd. Clinton, MD 20735
MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital
5601 Loch Raven Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21239
MedStar Health: Heart and Vascular at Bel Air
12 MedStar Blvd. Bel Air, MD 21015
MedStar Health: Heart and Vascular at Glen Burnie
808 Landmark Drive Suite 120 Glen Burnie, MD 21061
410-766-8677
MedStar Health: Cardiology Associates at Annapolis
2002 Medical Parkway Suite 500 Annapolis, MD 21401
MedStar Health: Cardiac Electrophysiology at Reston Town Center
1830 Town Center Drive Suite 405 Reston, VA 20190
Ask MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute
Have general questions for our heart and vascular program? Email us at AskMHVI@medstar.net. If you have clinically-specific questions, please contact your physician’s office.