Resistant Congestive Heart Failure

Abstract

Resistant congestive heart failure implies that the usual measures of treatment are not controlling the symptoms, but that response to treatment is still possible. In patients with this condition, the physician must review the diagnosis and treatment carefully, and should consider the possibility of unrecognized treatable or associated or complicating conditions. The simple, time-tested measures of increased rest, adequate restriction of sodium, proper dosage of digitalis, and the use of diuretics result in a good response in most patients.