Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program
UAB’S Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program takes a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing heart failure, and directing patients from around the country to appropriate therapy so that they may live longer with improved quality of life. In addition to conventional and usual therapy, there exists a wide range of experimental therapies for patients who do not respond to more conventional treatment.

Heart Transplantation and Lung Transplantation
Heart transplantation is performed to replace a failing heart that cannot be adequately treated by other means. Patients with end-stage pulmonary parenchymal or vascular diseases that cannot be treated effectively with conventional therapies should be considered for lung transplantation.

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
UAB offers many minimally invasive cardiac procedures, including state-of-the-art procedures not offered elsewhere in the region.

• Endovascular aortic graft placement
  Procedure to treat aneurysms of the descending aorta.
• Stentless Valvular Procedures

Procedures for Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta
UAB has some of the world’s most respected and sought-after thoracic surgeons, offering some procedures not commonly offered elsewhere in the region.

Procedures for Valvular Diseases
UAB has one of the world’s most renowned and innovative heart valve surgeons and offers some procedures not commonly offered elsewhere in the region.

End Stage Cardiac Procedures
Ventricular Assist Devices
A mechanical pump to assist a heart that is too weak to pump blood through the body on its own. A VAD is sometimes referred to as “a bridge to transplant” since it can help a patient survive until a heart transplant can be performed.