Nothing’s much scarier than finding out that your heart isn’t pumping enough blood to your body and that your heart is failing. This can be caused by coronary artery disease, infections (leading to cardiomyopathy) or an arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat). Deborah Heart and Lung Center’s outstanding Heart Failure Team is highly experienced in managing heart failure, offering a variety of tools to help restore quality of life for these patients. Included in Deborah’s arsenal are sophisticated medicines, the latest state-of-the-art pacemakers and defibrillators and minimally invasive surgical procedures using stereotactic radiofrequency ablation to help restore damaged heart muscle.
Deborah’s Heart Failure Team works closely with the hospital’s interventionalists and surgeons when angioplasty or heart valve or bypass surgery is necessary. This close collaboration among Deborah’s specialists offers the optimum in patient care.
A wealth of experience
The electrophysiologists on Deborah’s Heart Failure Team include highly specialized professionals with outstanding credentials. Edmund Karam, M.D., performs catheter ablations on patients with ventricular tachycardia, and was recently named a Fellow in the Heart Rhythm Society; Jennifer Mazzoni, D.O., is Director of the Outpatient Congestive Heart Failure Services Department; and Raffaele Corbisiero, M.D., is Chair of the Department of Electrophysiology and Pacing and the Electromechanical Therapy Institute, and was recently the first New Jersey physician to implant the Food and Drug Administration-approved Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and Quartet left ventricular quadripolar pacing lead. This new “quad” lead technology offers additional pacing options, reducing the need for reoperation to reposition leads, and providing more effective heart failure management.
The combination of the skills and services of Deborah’s Heart Failure Team provides unparalleled, superior care for patients.
To learn more about the specialists here to help you at Deborah, visit www.deborah.org and click on "Physician Directory."