Heart Failure Clinic
How does the Heart Failure Clinic work?
The Heart Failure Clinic of the Fundación Valle del Lili It specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and comprehensive follow-up of patients with heart failure at all stages. Its approach is geared towards improving quality of life, reducing hospitalizations, and prolonging survival through evidence-based protocols.
The service integrates clinical, interventional and surgical management, as well as education of the patient and their family, through a multidisciplinary care model.
Diseases it treats
This service comprehensively addresses the following pathologies and associated conditions:
- Acute heart failure
- Chronic heart failure
- Advanced heart failure
- cardiomyopathies
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Congenital heart disease in adults
- Patients requiring evaluation for advanced therapies
- Patients eligible for heart transplantation
Procedures and treatments
The Heart Failure Clinic offers a wide range of treatment options, including:
- Optimization of pharmacological medical treatment
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
- Implantable cardiac defibrillator implant
- Ventricular assist devices:
- Counterpulsation balloon
- ECMO
- Short-term ventricular assist device
- Heart transplant
- Right heart catheterization, especially in patients with advanced heart failure or pulmonary hypertension
- Percutaneous or surgical valve interventions
- Specialized cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure
Related subspecialties
Echocardiography
Hemodynamics
Electrophysiology
cardiovascular surgery
Pneumology
Psychiatry
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology
Physiatry
Nutrition
Schedule an appointment
Request your appointment with the specialists at the Heart Failure Clinic.
Contact
Call us: (+57) 602 331 9090 ext. 7046