Contemporary management of patients with heart failure.
Treatment of patients with heart failure has become extremely challenging. A complicated interplay of myocardial, hemodynamic, and humoral factors marking this condition requires a delicate balancing of medication use, procedural intervention, and lifestyle changes. Judicious prescription of therapies in stepwise fashion as the syndrome severity worsens (Fig. 2) is critical to success.
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Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA.
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