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Symptoms are relieved by removing excess fluid from the body, improving blood flow, improving heart muscle function, and increasing delivery of oxygen to the body tissues. This can be done by the various congestive heart failure treatments listed in the following sections. Medical Treatment. If the underlying cause of heart failure is not correctible by surgery or catheterization procedures, medical treatment is composed of lifestyle changes and medications.
pharmaceutical treatment for systolic heart failure, primarily cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), either alone (CRT-P) or in combination with deï¬brillator back-up (CRT-D). These devices are increasingly common in the United States, with estimated implant rates in patients with heart failure diagnoses or hospitalizations for sudden cardiac arrest ranging from 24% to 38%.1â3 For patients potentially eligible for CRT, CRT-D devices appear to be the âdefaultâ device in