Heart & Vascular

Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center

(415) 502-4243

Each year, UCSF's Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center (AHF CCC) treats and evaluates between 250 and 300 patients for heart failure. We are recognized internationally for our expertise in diagnosing and treating advanced heart failure.

We use remote monitoring to closely track our patients' status and provide state-of-the-art conventional and experimental drug and device therapies. Working with a broad team of heart specialists, we provide seamless coordinated care for our heart failure patients. Depending on the cause of the heart failure, treatment may include:

If those therapies aren't successful, a heart transplant may be an option. Since 1989, the AHF CCC has performed nearly 600 heart transplants. We are the sixth largest heart transplant program in the nation and continue to grow rapidly.

We are constantly exploring new technologies that allow us to accept donor hearts that could not have been accepted in the past. This innovative approach means that we have access to more donor hearts and are able to reduce waitlist times for patients requiring a heart transplant.

As a national leader in advanced heart failure care we are dedicated to finding new effective therapies. Eligible patients may be able to take part in clinical trials for heart failure treatment. Learn more about the process and benefits of participating in a clinical trial.

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    Conditions we treat

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    Awards & recognition

    • U S News and World Report badge recognizing UCSF as part of its 2024 to 2025 Honor Roll

      Among the top hospitals in the nation

    • U S News and World Report badge recognizing UCSF among the Best Hospitals for Heart and Vascular, 2024-2025

      One of the nation's best for heart & vascular surgery

    • U S News and World Report badge recognizing UCSF among the High Performing Hospitals for Heart Bypass Surgery, 2024-2025

      Rated high-performing hospital for heart bypass surgery

    • U S News and World Report badge recognizing UCSF among the High Performing Hospitals for Heart Failure, 2024-2025

      Rated high-performing hospital for heart failure

    Decorative Caduceus

    PROACTIVE-HF-2 Trial Heart Failure NYHA Class II and III

    A composite endpoint of first HF event or death from CVD up to 24 months.

    Recruiting

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    The EMPOWER Trial - The Carillon Mitral Contour System® in Treating Heart Failure With at Least...

    Freedom from a composite of major adverse events (defined as Device Embolization, Vessel Erosion, Cardiac Perforation, and occurrence of cardiac surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention) in the Intervention group is greater t...

    Recruiting

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    ALT-FLOW II Trial of the Edwards APTURE Transcatheter Shunt System

    Shunt implant safety: proportion of patients in the APTURE shunt group without any serious device or procedure-related (CEC adjudicated) complications (i.e., Major Adverse Cardiovascular, Cerebrovascular, and Renal Events [MACCRE]...

    Recruiting

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    Modulation of SERCA2a of Intra-myocytic Calcium Trafficking in Heart Failure With Reduced Eject...

    New York Heart Association classification (I, II, III or IV)

    Recruiting

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    Levothyroxine Supplementation for Heart Transplant Recipients

    Measured using the vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) scale. VIS calculation: dopamine dose (μg/kg/min) + dobutamine dose (μg/kg/min) + 100 × epinephrine dose (μg/kg/min) + 10 × milrinone dose (μg/kg/min) + 10 000 × vasopressin dos...

    Recruiting

    Decorative Caduceus

    Reducing Right Ventricular Failure in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (RELIEVE-PAH)

    Percentage of Treatment group patients experiencing any device-related Major Adverse Cardiovascular or Neurological Events (MACNE) during the first 90-days after implantation

    Recruiting

    Decorative Caduceus

    Diuretics Alone vs. Aortix Endovascular Device for Acute Heart Failure

    Incidence of Major Adverse Events

    Recruiting

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    Metformin for Pulmonary Hypertension HFpEF

    Recruiting

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    Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry

    PAH guideline-recommended diagnostics assessed include chest radiography, echocardiogram, ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scan, pulmonary function tests, overnight oximetry, and right heart catheterization and identified as either "co...

    Recruiting

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      UCSF Division of Cardiology Research

      Researchers at the UCSF Division of Cardiology investigate all aspects of heart disorders, from how disease develops to who is most at risk, with an emphasis on translating key findings into more effective care.

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