title: [Treatment of chronic cardiac insufficiency in 1983].
abstract: Identifying and correcting the cause is the ideal treatment of the clinical syndrome of chronic congestive heart failure. Whenever such an approach is impossible or does not suffice, the next step is to suppress precipitating factors and to prescribe rest, a low salt diet, digitalis and diuretics. If the patient remains symptomatic, vasodilators such as nitrates, hydralazin, prazosin or captopril may be very helpful. The physiopathological basis for a rational and practical approach to these various stages of therapy is reviewed.
mesh_terms: D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000187:drug effects; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004070:Digitalis; D004232:Diuretics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System / Q000187:drug effects; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D004232:Diuretics; D014665:Vasodilator Agents
vernacular_title: Le traitement de l'insuffisance cardiaque chronique en 1983.