Why trust your heart to anyone else?
Texas
Heart Institute (THI) at CHI St. Luke’s Health-Baylor St. Luke’s offers
a full range of specialty heart programs through our clinical
partnership with CHI St. Luke’s Health. Led by THI president emeritus and cardiologist James T. Willerson,
the Institute's expert heart doctors are leaders in their fields with
more experience and procedures performed than at any other institution.
Patients
and their families benefit from our world-class excellence in improving
patient care, education (Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is a leading
teaching hospital), and research (world leaders in developing
heart disease treatments with medical management, interventional
cardiology, minimally invasive surgery, transplantation, mechanical
assist devices, artificial hearts, stem cells, gene therapy and
regenerative medicine). With these resources, our specialists work
together as a team, providing the latest technology and treatment
options available.
Our Heart Failure Treatment Program includes
Transplant and Heart Assist Device (VAD or Ventricular Assist Device)
Programs which are world famous for treating heart failure. More heart
transplants and assist device (like the Heartmate II developed at THI)
procedures have been performed here than at any other medical center or
hospital in the world.
Experience Counts in Heart Failure Management
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O.H. Frazier, MD Director of Cardiovascular Surgery Research at the Texas Heart Institute,
Professor of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Tenured professor, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston
William E. Cohn, MD
Professor of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Houston
Deborah Ellen Meyers, MD
Medical Director, Heart Failure Programs,
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Medical Director, Heart Failure Clinic at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Andrew B. Civitello, MD
Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program,
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Reynolds M. Delgado, III, MD
Medical Director, Mechanical Assist Devices in Heart Failure,
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
How to find us on StLukesHouston.com:
Heart failure treatment information:
HEART FAILURE PROGRAM 832-355-3961
LVAD PROGRAM 832-355-2285, toll free at 877-685-0361
HEART TRANSPLANT PROGRAM 832-355-2285, International: 832-355-3350
Full range of heart conditions treatment:
HEART AND CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENT CARE SERVICES
FIND A DOCTOR or call 832-355-DOCS (3627)
PATIENT CENTER 832-355-1000
Admissions, insurance information, directions, billing questions, and other patient services.
EMERGENCY ROOM LOCATOR
If you are experiencing chest pain or what feels like a life threatening emergency, call 911 now.
INTERNATIONAL PATIENT CENTER 832-355-3350, international@stlukeshealth.org
Everything from travel assistance to comprehensive patient care.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES at our Heart Information Center. Ask a Texas Heart Institute Doctor and more than 170 heart-health topics.