Patient Care

 

Treating End-Stage Heart Disease
Albany Medical Center has been treating the most challenging heart cases for decades, with patients being referred from all over upstate New York and western New England.

Offering innovative and effective treatments, the Center’s End-Stage Heart Disease Treatment Program provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care to individuals referred with advanced heart failure, as well as other forms of complex heart disease.

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Heart Transplantation Surgical Options & Implantations

Upon referral, patients are evaluated by a multi-disciplinary team of cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, critical care specialists and anesthesiologists.  The team consults with practitioners who have extensive experience in nursing disciplines, heart failure and heart transplant coordination, nutrition, social work, pharmacology, immunology, infectious diseases, psychiatry and clinical pathology.

Albany Med’s staff is available 24-hours a day to help patients to help themselves through proven practices of chronic disease management.

Contact Us
Albany Med offers telephone consultation with a fullytrained transplant cardiologist on a 24 hour-per-day basis, 365 days per year, for all referring physicians and patients who desire our assistance.

518-262-5076 for patient appointments and administrative calls
518-262-3125 after hours and weekends

Related Information & Links

Treating End-Stage Heart Disease Brochure