More articles from Heart Failure Update

A patient who apparently cannot tolerate ACE inhibitors presents with worsening heart failure. What should be the next step?

Too many heart failure patients die in pain, short of breath, and with too much left unsaid. We can do better for them.

Heart failure can have an insidious onset, and the best time to intervene with ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers is early.

To treat heart failure effectively you need a team and you need a plan. In short, you need a program.

Amiodarone is the antiarrhythmic agent of choice for patients with congestive heart failure, but its clinical benefit remains unproved.

Beta-blockers can stop the downward spiral of heart failure by improving the biology of the myocyte. With an illustration showing the abnormal remodeling process in heart failure.

Heart failure is going to be every physician’s problem, regardless of specialty.

As the definition of heart failure changes, new treatment strategies are needed to control costs and reduce suffering.