Update in chronic heart failure medical therapies.

Abstract

Chronic heart failure is a part of the overall broad spectrum of heart failure disease and is a major public health problem in our country. Its mainstream therapy consists of diet education, pharmacological treatment and heart failure related devices therapy in selected cases. Substantial evidences of medical therapies in chronic heart failure have been published as well as practice guidelines used among developed countries have recently been updated. Important guidelines direct medical therapies, focusing on blockage of key activated neurohormonal systems, in chronic heart failure and promising novel agents are reviewed in this article.