Heart failure As well as addressing the underlying cause for a patient's heart failure (most commonly ischemic heart disease or hypertension), the mainstay of heart failure treatment is with medication. These include drugs to prevent fluid from accumulating in the lungs by increasing the amount of urine a patient produces (diuretics), and drugs that attempt to preserve the pumping function of the heart (beta blockers, ACE inhibitors and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists).
Heart failure As well as addressing the underlying cause for a patient's heart failure (most commonly ischemic heart disease or hypertension), the mainstay of heart failure treatment is with medication These include drugs to prevent fluid from accumulating in the lungs by increasing the amount of urine a patient produces (diuretics) and drugs that attempt to preserv.e the pumping f,unction of the heart (beta blockers ACE inhibitors and mineralo,corticoid receptor antagonists).