Advanced Heart Failure Care at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute

If you’re facing heart failure, it’s important that you get specialized care. Heart failure is serious, but it doesn’t have to shorten your life or control how you live. Taking early control of your condition with expert care can help you live longer – and live better.

At Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute, our cardiologists and heart failure specialists give you the experienced, tailored care your condition needs. From medication and implantable devices to care from the region’s only heart transplant center, we deliver every option to help you manage your heart failure and live the life you want.

Expert Heart Failure Care

Our expertise, outcomes and offerings set our heart failure program apart. We give you:

• Vast experience. It comes from managing more than 3,000 heart failure patients every year, and performing more heart failure procedures than many other centers in the region.
• Leading transplant care. We’re the region’s only heart transplant center, and we’ve been performing them for more than 30 years.
• Top outcomes. Our one-year heart transplant survival rate is 98 percent, compared to a national rate of 90 percent.
• Breakthrough treatments. We’re one of the region’s only centers to offer the total artificial heart – and we were the first center in the Carolinas to implant one.
• Renowned care. We’re designated by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association as a center of excellence for the exceptional level and scope of services we offer to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
• Clinical trials. That means you get access to the latest heart failure medications, devices and treatments that could save or improve your life.
• Patient-centered programs. Our award-winning heart success program takes a team approach to help you manage your heart failure and stay out of the hospital.