Improving care of chronic heart failure: advances from drugs to devices.
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Abstract
The right combination of drugs and surgical treatment can improve systolic function and prevent, attenuate, or reverse heart failure. Patient education and disease management programs can reduce hospitalizations. Optimal treatment for each patient is guided by a thorough evaluation and use of functional classification and disease staging systems.