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Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment for chronic heart failure lacks standardized diagnostic and therapeutic protocols reflecting regional clinical experience and syndrome differentiation.
This protocol provides standardized recommendations for integrating traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation with Western guideline-directed medical therapies across the spectrum of chronic heart failure.
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Reinforces quadruple therapy and HF staging in chronic heart failure; extends consensus by standardizing six TCM syndrome patterns for integrated care.
Chronic heart failure is a common end-stage syndrome of the cardiovascular system that seriously impairs patients’ quality of life and increases the social and healthcare burden. At present, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment for chronic heart failure continues to evolve; however, there is still a lack of standardized diagnostic and therapeutic protocols that fully reflect regional clinical experience, the characteristics of syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine, and the advantages of integrated Chinese and Western medicine. Therefore, relying on regional medical resources and a multidisciplinary collaborative platform, this protocol systematically summarizes recent advances in the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure, and, in conjunction with domestic and international guidelines and expert consensus as well as the clinical experience of regional experts, formulates this protocol for the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure. The aim is to further standardize clinical practice in the integrated diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure, improve the quality of care, and fully leverage the exemplary, radiating, and leading role of regional medical centers.
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Xie et al. (2026) conducted a review in Chronic Heart Failure. Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine was evaluated. This clinical protocol provides standardized guidelines for the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure, classifying it into six syndrome types.
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