Heart Transplant

Appointments

To make an appointment, you need a referral from your personal doctor, who should call the UCSF Heart and Lung Transplant Program at (415) 353- 4145. Your medical history as well as physical examination and recent test results will be requested. Upon receipt, the information is screened and discussed with the medical director and an evaluation is scheduled with the heart transplant team.

The heart transplant office requests the following information from the referring physician or institution:

• Recent clinical summary, including all current medications and treatment plans
• Recent labs
• All demographic and insurance information
• Recent electrocardiogram (EKG), chest X-rays
• Results of gynecological exam with pap smear within past year
• Mammogram for women over 40
• Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level for men over 40

Potential heart transplant candidates are evaluated by the transplant team, which includes the transplant surgeon, cardiologist, clinical social worker, a transplant nurse coordinator and a physical therapist. The team reviews the consults, recommendations and testing results, and makes decisions about a patient's suitability for transplant. The referring physician is provided with a written summary of the evaluation and selection process.

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.
Last updated May 8, 2007