Treatment of Heart Failure

Abstract

In order to manage cardiac failure we need to classify cardiac failure into categories: a) Acute; history of onset in days or hours. • b) Chronic or recurrent; history of onset of more than 3 month duration. c) Sub acute; onset of symptoms of less than 3 month duration. Common causes in children are: . . • . a) Rheumatic valvular heart disease. b) Myocarditis (1% of all new Paediatric out patients at the National Institue of Cardiovascular diseases). • Common causes in adults are: a) Ischemic heart diseases and its complicat ions. b) Hypertensive he art disease. c) Rheumatic heart disease. d) Cardiomyopathies.