The Sanger Clinic's heart failure practice uses a multidisiplinary approach to the evaluation and management of patients with heart failure. Our goal is to empower the patient to better care for themselves by improving compliance, patient understanding, and family support.

The key to our program remains cutting edge, individualized patient diagnosis and treatment provided by physicians in conjunction with clinical nurse coordinators. Our patients range from those who are asymptomatic to those in desperate need of cardiac transplantation. We believe that transplantation is a last resort and will do everything possible to avoid transplantation if possible.

The Sanger Clinic offers a new innovative procedure known as Surgical Ventricular Restoration (SVR). SVR is a surgical procedure to treat congestive heart failure caused by myocardial infarction (heart attack). Following a heart attack, scar or an aneurysm may develop resulting in an enlarged rounded heart that may lead to congestive heart failure (CHF). The goal of SVR is to restore the heart to a more normal size and shape, therefore improving function.

Patients may also be referred to other practices within cardiology such as the Catheterization Laboratory. The Catheterization Laboratory has a special interest in patients with cardiomyopathy. Cardiopulmonary stress testing is available as well as the complete spectrum of noninvasive testing.