Advanced congestive heart failure

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When do patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) need to be hospitalized? What levels of therapy should be provided in the hospital? Which patients should be referred for transplantation? These types of questions, discussed by Dr Stevenson, are the ones that need to be addressed when CHF reaches its advanced stages.

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Lynne Warner Stevenson

Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD Until recently, Dr Stevenson was an associate professor of medicine and director of the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Medicine, where her research focused on the design of alternative therapies for advanced heart failure, exercise physiology before and after transplantation, and the optimal distribution of limited donor hearts for transplantation. She has relocated to become clinical director of the Cardiomyopathy and Transplant Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where she will further develop these interests and focus on earlier stages of cardiomyopathy and congestion.