Heart and Vascular Institute

Advanced Heart Failure Center

When you’re faced with congestive heart failure or another serious heart condition, you want the most specialized care and the latest treatments.

The UPMC Advanced Heart Failure Center is among the nation’s leading programs of its kind, and the only full-service heart failure center in western Pennsylvania.  

At UPMC, you have access to state-of-the-art heart treatments and procedures, such as:

• traditional medical therapy 
• standard and minimally invasive procedures
• evaluations and referrals for heart transplantation or ventricular assist device (VAD) therapy

In the News

Dr. Robert Kormos discusses the LVAD device that was used as a bridge to transplant for former Vice President Dick Cheney on "ABC World News."

>Watch the story