Advanced Heart Failure Program
Why Choose TriHealth?
- Patients with advanced heart issues deserve patient-centered, personalized care like that delivered by a top Cincinnati heart hospital.
- TriHealth’s Advanced Heart Failure program, located in the Harold and Eugenia Thomas Comprehensive Care Center on the campus of Bethesda North Hospital, is a recognized leader in quality and outcomes.
- A multidisciplinary team experienced in heart conditions brings together all the caregivers and treatments necessary to provide the best, personalized options for a patient’s quality and longevity of life.
- TriHealth was 1st in the region to harness the brain and nervous system to treat heart failure symptoms using the BarostimTM Baroreflex Activation Therapy implant. Learn more.
Heart Failure
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is not able to pump blood effectively to support the needs of the body. In advanced heart failure, the late stage of heart failure, standard therapies are no longer effective.
TriHealth’s Advanced Heart Failure Programs
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)/MCS program]
- Heart recovery program
- Device/virtual Heart failure clinic
- Pulmonary Hypertension Program
- Infiltrative cardiomyopathy program: HCM/Amyloid/Sarcoid
Advanced Heart Failure Treatments
The variety of treatments utilized by our medical professionals to help patients as they reach the advanced heart failure stage include medications, implanted devices, as well as surgical options.
- Protocolized rapid multidisciplinary GDMT titration with APPs, pharmacists, and HF MDs
- Remote heart failure monitoring: LifeVest®, PA hemodynamic monitoring; CardioMEMS, HFMS, Beacon/HeartLogic ICD/CRT monitoring
- CardioMEMS; PA hemodynamic monitoring.
- LifeVest, HFMS, Beacon/HeartLogic ICD/CRT monitoring
- REDS (non-invasive fluid volume assessment)
- EKG/Echocardiography/Stress testing
- Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) with cardioversion
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET)
- Right and left heart catheterization with exercise and pulmonary vasodilator testing
- Endomyocardial biopsy
- Cardiac/Abdominal PET scan
- Cardiovascular genetic testing
- Palliative care consultations
- Anti-amyloid therapies/Anti-sarcoid therapies
- Barostim ™ Baroreflex activation therapy – first in the region
- Cardioverter defibrillators - implanted internally or worn externally.
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
- Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) - An internal pump placed in the left ventricle to pump blood to the rest of the body to aid in myocardial recovery or support the heart prior to heart transplant.
- Bypass surgery
TriHealth’s Multidisciplinary Advanced Heart Failure Team Includes:
- Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologists
- Inpatient/outpatient advanced practice providers
- Inpatient/outpatient advanced heart failure pharmacists
- Device/Virtual clinic coordinator
- Heart failure coordinator
- Pulmonary hypertension coordinator
- Infiltrative cardiomyopathy coordinator: HCM/Amyloid/Sarcoid
- VAD coordinator nurses
- Social workers
TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute’s Advanced Heart Failure Experts
TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute have brought together the highest level of expertise to the TriHealth Heart Failure program, led by Kathryn O’Keefe, MD, Surgical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support and LVAD Program (who completed training on LVAD implantation at the Cleveland Clinic) and Sateesh Kesari MD, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and Medical Director of the LVAD program.
