German Disease Management Guidelines: Surgical Therapies for Chronic Heart Failure

Abstract

The German Disease Management Guideline “Chronic Heart Failure” intends to guide physicians working in the field of diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. The guideline provides a tool on the background of evidence based medicine. The following short review wants to give insights into the role of some surgical treatment options to improve heart failure, such as revascularization, ventricular reconstruction and aneurysmectomy, mitral valve reconstruction, ventricular assist devices and heart transplantation.

chronic heart failure - evidence based medicine - surgery

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