Heart Failure Treatment

Advanced-Stage Heart Failure Treatments

Drug Therapies

While several types of medications are used to treat heart failure, advanced-stage heart failure means, in part, that your medication alone no longer adequately controls your symptoms. While you're on device-related therapy, your physician may continue to prescribe ACE inhibitors, Beta-blockers, blood thinners and diuretics, among others. It is common for a combination of heart medications to be required.

If your heart failure symptoms flare up, you may need to be hospitalized for a few days. While in the hospital, you may receive additional intravenous diuretics, vasodilator medications or inotropic medications. These drugs work to quickly relieve your symptoms and help your heart pump better.