Digitalis may provide symptomatic improvement in some instances for patients with congenital heart disease, for whom treatment is otherwise generally unsatisfactory.
Historically, treatment for congenital heart disease was considered unsatisfactory with limited symptomatic improvement options.
The treatment of congenital heart disease is unsatisfactory.As a rule, nothing can be done to improve patients symptomatically; in some instances digitalis may be of help."
Edward P. Walsh (2007) studied this question. Digitalis may provide symptomatic improvement in some instances for patients with congenital heart disease, for whom treatment is otherwise generally unsatisfactory.