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"Mayo's Heart Failure Program provides comprehensive evaluation of patients and long-term management, as well as patient counseling and patient education."
Mohamad H. Yamani, M.D. Director
Heart failure is a chronic disease in which the heart's ability to receive and or pump blood is impaired so much that the heart can no longer meet the body's needs. The disease currently affects 5 million Americans, with over 500,000 new cases diagnosed per year. Typically, heart failure is the end stage of a number of heart conditions and diseases, including high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart valve problems, systemic diseases or congenital heart disease.
Different heart diseases result in different forms of heart failure, each having its own specific therapy. Patients with heart failure require precise diagnosis, and then careful treatment and monitoring — so they can benefit most from care at a specialized heart failure clinic by a physician trained in heart failure.
Mayo Heart Failure Program in Jacksonville provides comprehensive evaluation of heart-failure patients and long-term management. Management includes optimization of medical regimen, eligibility assessment for electrical device therapy in collaboration with our electrophysiology colleagues, eligibility evaluation for mechanical circulatory support, and eligibility evaluation for cardiac transplantation.
Mayo Clinic has extensive experience using ventricular assist devices (VADs) to support patients with intractable congestive heart failure.
The heart failure program also facilitates patient counseling and patient education via consultation with other disciplines, including diabetes education, pharmaceutical consultation, nutrition counseling, and cardiac rehabilitation.
Patients with heart failure often require a teamwork approach to their care. Our clinic staff participates in a truly integrated care system, from diagnosis to treatment to follow-up.
To determine the type and progression of each patient's heart failure, our cardiologists utilize Mayo's special diagnostic areas, such as:
Then, depending on the care required for each patient, the heart failure cardiologists work with these specialists:
Beyond the walls of Mayo Clinic, the Heart Failure Clinic team also is committed to sharing care with our patients' primary physicians. We work with local physicians and laboratory testing facilities to optimize follow-up of the patient's care.
Our team of professionals provides excellence in outpatient care while offering a specialized inpatient program for patients requiring hospitalization. When these patients are in the hospital, their care is directed and monitored by heart failure specialists.
The Heart Failure Clinic has an active clinical research program, giving our patients opportunities to participate in experimental therapies not available elsewhere. Our researchers cooperate with other institutions in multicenter trials, but several Mayo-initiated trials are exclusive to Mayo patients. The research program gives hope to patients who have tried standard treatments with no success.
For appointments, please call (904) 953-7278, Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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