4 Results forAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologists near Burien, WA
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Learn more about Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologists
An advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist cares for people whose heart failure no longer responds to conventional therapies and symptom management. Heart failure specialists perform procedures, manage complex treatments, including ventricular assist devices, and provide advanced heart care for people before and after heart transplant surgery.
A heart failure cardiologist typically:
- Evaluates a patient’s medical and heart history, and explains heart failure and its management to patients and their families
- Performs a physical exam including assessing the heart, lungs, and blood vessels
- Orders and interprets laboratory, imaging and other tests including EKG (electrocardiogram, or ECG), echocardiogram, and cardiac catheterization
- Determines if a patient is a good candidate for a heart transplant or for devices that help the heart pump more effectively
- Prescribes medications and cardiac rehabilitation, performs advanced heart treatments, and manages patients before and after heart transplant
- Treats and monitors conditions that worsen heart disease and heart failure, such as high blood pressure, smoking, and high cholesterol
- Evaluates and manages potential heart donors
- Provides end-of–life care
- Works closely with complex care teams to provide optimal care. Teams include transplant surgeons, transplant coordinators, pharmacists, social workers, psychiatrists, dietitians, specialized nurses, and cardiac rehabilitation specialists.
Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologists may also be known as cardiologists, heart failure specialists, heart failure cardiologists, and heart transplant cardiologists.
There are 4 specialists practicing Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology in Burien, WA with an overall average rating of 5.0 stars. There are 10 hospitals near Burien, WA with affiliated Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology specialists, including Swedish Cherry Hill Campus, EvergreenHealth Medical Center - Kirkland and Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center.
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- 1959 NE Pacific StSeattle, WA 9819513 miles away
Biography: Dr. Shin Lin, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Specialist. Dr. Shin Lin, MD is affiliated with UW Medical Center - Montlake.
- 1959 NE Pacific StSeattle, WA 9819513 miles away
Biography: <p>Kevin Douglas O'Brien, MD, FAHA, is a cardiologist at the Cardiology Clinic at UW Medical Center. Dr. O'Brien is also a UW professor of Medicine.<br><br>Dr. O'Brien believes in creating an active partnership with patients to deliver the best possible care.<br><br>Dr. O'Brien earned his MD at the UW. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. He is expert in congestive heart failure, cardiac transplantation and lipid disorders, with clinical experience in post-cardiac transplant care, congestive heart failure and cardiovascular risk modification and prevention. Dr. O'Brien's research interests include lipid disorders, diabetes and atherosclerosis, aortic valve disease pathogenesis and diabetic cardiomyopathy.<br></p>
- 1959 NE Pacific StSeattle, WA 9819513 miles awayPatients Tell Us:
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Biography: <p>Elina Minami, M.D., is a board certified physician at the Cardiology Clinic at UW Medical Center and a UW associate professor of Medicine and Cardiology.Dr. Minami is an expert in the management of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation. She employs a patient-centered approach in managing her patients' care, working with them to find balance in living with a chronic condition.Dr. Minami earned her M.D. from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is board certified in both Cardiology and in Advanced Heart Failure/Cardiac Transplantation. Her clinical interests include the management of pulmonary hypertension, advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation. Her research interests include stem-cell based therapies in cardiac repair and research in antibody-mediated rejection.?</p>
Dr. Tajinderpal Saraon, MD
Specialty: Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology16233 Sylvester Rd SW Ste 260Burien, WA 981660.8 miles awayPatients Tell Us:- Offers Telehealth
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Dr. John Mignone, MD
Specialty: Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology1600 E Jefferson St Ste 600Seattle, WA 981229.6 miles awayPatients Tell Us:- Offers Telehealth
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Specialty: Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology1600 E Jefferson St Ste 600Seattle, WA 981229.6 miles awayDr. Debleena Dutt, MD
Specialty: Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology1600 E Jefferson St Ste 600Seattle, WA 981229.6 miles awayPatients Tell Us:- Easy scheduling
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