Patient Referral and Preliminary Evaluation
Who should be referred?
A patient's candidacy is based on the nature and severity of his or her heart disease, the patient's motivation, as well as the absence of any contraindications. The center's multidisciplinary team of physicians and transplant coordinators review each patient's pretransplant status carefully to determine whether the patient's condition warrants a transplant. Advancing disease and the long wait on the transplant list make early referral necessary.
Patients may be referred to the Heart Transplant Program by their primary care physician, cardiologist, insurance/case manager or may be self-referred. Referrals may be received by mail, fax, e-mail or by telephone. In the case of a telephone referral, the referring party is instructed to mail/fax the pertinent patient records. Each referral is reviewed in detail by the transplant cardiologist and coordinator. If the patient has an obvious contraindication, this information is communicated to the referring person and no further steps towards transplantation are undertaken. If the patient has a contraindication, but there is a chance that another therapy short of transplant may be offered, then the patient may be seen with this treatment as the goal.
Transplant Coordinator
Heart Failure/Transplant Program
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
3300 Gallows Road
Falls Church, VA 22042-3300
703-776-2986 or 1-888-677-1778
Fax: 703-776-2797
transplant.referrals@inova.org
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