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Patients who are new to Loyola and its heart failure
program are asked to bring copies of their records,
especially any recent hospitalization discharge summaries,
cardiac test results, echocardiogram video tapes and
cardiac catheterization films. Please arrange with your
current physician to have these test results available
the day of the visit.
On the day of the visit, patients will be seen by a
heart failure doctor for a history and physical exam.
Patients are asked to bring their current medications
to the visit. The heart failure nurse coordinator will
educate the patient and family about heart failure,
signs and symptoms and when to call the doctor. The
visit may last one to one and a half hours.
At the end of the visit, the doctor will make some
clinical recommendations. Further heart failure tests
may be suggested. Those tests may include a right- and
left-heart heart catheterization (if not already done),
a nuclear medicine test (MUGA), and blood tests.
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Heart
Failure Treatments
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