title: Improving care of chronic heart failure: advances from drugs to devices.
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.
authors.affiliation: Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine, Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA.
authors.forename: Randall C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Starling
mesh_terms: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002227:Carbazoles / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D000077261:Carvedilol; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000628:therapy; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011412:Propanolamines / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists; D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; D002227:Carbazoles; D011412:Propanolamines; D000077261:Carvedilol