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Therapies aimed at optimizing preload, decreasing afterload, and improving contractility can improve symptoms and sometimes survival in patients with congestive heart failure.
Understanding pathogenetic mechanisms and optimizing preload, afterload, and contractility are key to managing congestive heart failure.
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May guide symptom management in HF; leaves open survival benefits without randomized confirmation.
The management of patients with congestive heart failure is based upon an understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms. Therapy aimed at optimizing preload, decreasing afterload, and improving contractility can improve symptoms, and in some instances, improve survival.
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Brozena et al. (1990) studied this question. Therapies aimed at optimizing preload, decreasing afterload, and improving contractility can improve symptoms and sometimes survival in patients with congestive heart failure.
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