Understanding Your Options
Heart failure is a serious condition and can be a difficult diagnosis for patients to receive. The progressive disease usually requires a team of medical professionals to manage the range of symptoms that disrupt a patient's life. While many of the conditions that lead to heart failure cannot be reversed, often heart failure can be treated with good results.
Your doctor will review all of your treatment options with you, which may include medication [Link in page] and lifestyle changes to manage your condition, electrophysiologic procedures to correct irregular heartbeats[link in page] and other specialized treatment options [link in page]. Surgical therapies such as heart transplantation or VAD implantation are used when all other treatment options have failed.
- Heart Transplantation
- Other Surgical Therapies
- Medication
- Aldosterone blockers
- Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
- Antiarrhythmic medications
- Beta-blocker therapy
- Digitalis
- Diuretics
- Investigational drug agents for heart failure
- Vasodilators
- Electrophysiology
- Advanced Specialized Treatments
- Evaluation and treatment of patients with amyloid heart disease
- Evaluation and treatment of inherited cardiovascular disease
- Evaluation and management of heart failure associated with chemotherapy or radiation treatments
