Program Overview
- Established in 1986.
- Largest heart transplant program in South Texas – Have performed nearly 300 heart transplants and 100 cardiac assist device implantations to date.
- One of the best heart transplant patient one-year survival rate among heart transplant centers in Central and South Texas. Program received an 82.32 percent one-year survival rating for patients receiving their first heart transplant from January 2006 to June 2008 (source: www.ustransplant.org).
- First Medicare approved program in South Texas.
- Approved by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
- Comprehensive advanced congestive heart failure disease management clinic where medical therapy is optimized prior to determination if cardiac transplantation is indicated.
- Newly remodeled full-service clinic that offers on-site laboratory, echocardiography, chest X-ray, and pacemaker integration services.
- Only approved Destination Therapy Program in San Antonio that utilizes HeartMate® Left Ventricular Assist Device as a bridge to transplant or transplant alternative; also experienced with Thoratec®, Abiomed®, and cath lab inserted ventricular assist devices.
- Active site for on-going clinical research trials for heart failure patients that focus on optimal medical therapies, infusion therapies, and mechanical assist devices.
- Heart transplant physicians are experts in many areas of cardiology; they are able to work with heart failure patients and heart transplant candidates to determine the best therapeutic strategy at any point throughout the patient’s plan of care.
- Bilingual physicians, clinical and support staff.
Meet the Team