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When your heart starts to fail, the rest of your body does not get enough blood and oxygen. Everyday tasks like walking, climbing stairs or carrying groceries can become a struggle. But there is help and hope at UC Davis Health Heart and Vascular Center. Our heart failure specialists offer treatments that help you enjoy a better quality of life.

UC Davis Health offers evidence-based, complete care for patients with all stages of heart failure. Experts from the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine explain what heart failure patients can expect and how treatment plans are created, which includes nutrition and medication plans.

HeartShare is an initiative by the National Institute of Health. UC Davis Health partners with them to better understand heart failure.

Cardiac amyloidosis is a condition where proteins in the body misfold into a shape that allows them to form into amyloid fibrils and deposit in organs throughout the body. While the amyloid fibrils build up, the organs may not work as well as before. There are two basic types of amyloidosis: light chain amyloidosis and transthyretin, or TTR amyloidosis. Doctors and nurses from the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine explain how cardiac amyloidosis is diagnosed and treated.

There are several different ways to manage Cardiac Amyloidosis, depending on the type of amyloidosis a patient is diagnosed with. Our physicians discuss the different treatment and medication options.

Our physicians discuss the various risk factors that come with a diagnosis.

A Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) is a battery-operated surgical implant that helps the heart pump blood throughout the body. Doctors and nurses from the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine explain how the implant works and which heart failure patients might benefit from the use of one.

A Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) is a battery-operated surgical implant that helps the heart pump blood throughout the body. UC Davis LVAD Coordinator Farid Dawar, R.N., demonstrates how a HeartMate 3 LVAD works and what patients with advanced heart failure can expect when using one.

Our physicians discuss the different medication options for patients. The medications we use in the management of heart failure are tailored to each patient's needs.

There are quite a few medications that need to be taken in order to manage heart failure effectively.Our pharmacists main goal is to make sure that patients feel confident in being able to take these medications every day since we know that we get the most benefit when we're able to take them on a regular basis.