Heart Failure Treatment

Advanced-Stage Heart Failure Treatments

Over time, as the condition of heart failure advances, the severity of your symptoms worsens and the condition progresses to an advanced-stage. Advanced-stage heart failure coincides with Class III and IV on the New York Heart Association classification scale. For advanced-stage heart failure patients, lifestyle changes and heart failure medications alone may not be enough to appropriately manage heart failure symptoms and another course of action should be discussed with your physician. Device-based therapies such as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), or a heart pump called a ventricular assist device (VAD) that helps maintain the pumping ability of the heart may also be appropriate.