Heart failure affects more than 5.7 million Americans.*
To address a growing health concern, Lakeland Regional Health looks to develop a Heart Failure Center dedicated to providing leading-edge treatments and improving quality of life.
Heart failure is caused when the heart can no longer efficiently pump blood throughout the body. It often leads to organ failure as organs not receiving an adequate blood supply atrophy and die.
One of the most common conditions of heart failure is dilated cardiomyopathy, where the heart’s primary pumping chamber, the left ventricle, becomes enlarged and can no longer pump blood effectively through the body.
Heart failure can be caused by a number of cardiac conditions including heart attack, heart valve disease, diseases of the heart muscles. High blood pressure, kidney disease and other such conditions can also overwork the heart, leading to heart failure.
Treatments we offer TODAY for heart failure include:
- Medication therapy
- Heart valve repair or replacement
- Coronary bypass surgery
- Pacemaker implants
- Implantable
- cardioverter-defibrillators