Emory (Atlanta). Emory University Hospital is a major referral institution for patients with complex cardiac problems. Emory clinicians performed the first diagnostic catheterizations in the 1940s and helped pioneer the angioplasty procedure in the 1980s. Today, clinicians at Emory's Heart Transplant Program focus on advanced heart procedures and performed 39 heart transplants in 2016, recording an 88.7 percent survival rate. Since the program launched, Emory surgeons have performed over 750 heart transplants — more than any other hospital in Georgia. In addition to the heart transplant program, Emory's heart failure clinic handles more than 2,400 patient visits per year and currently follows around 500 adults with congenital heart disease.
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