Congestive Heart Failure

The Batista Operation
The spotlight is focussed on this decade's most exciting and news-worthy innovative operation for heart failure.

Batista Operation for Heart Failure
A description of the innovative new operation for heart failure pioneered by a Brazilian surgeon, from the American Heart Association website.

Congestive Heart Failure
The American Heart Association website gives a comprehensive account of chronic heart failure.

Cardiomyopathy - Things you wanted to know
A descriptive account of this condition which is a primary disorder of heart muscle causing heart failure.

Congestive heart failure - What happens when your heart can't keep up?
An article from the Mayo Clinic that looks at the consequences of heart failure in advanced stages.

Digitalis
The wonder drug of cardiology, this medicine is now being used restrictively after research showed its usefulness to be limited.

Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty - Support for the failing heart
A look at a unique operation to help treat the patient with end stage heart failure.

Fixing a broken heart
New prospects for treating late-stage heart disease causing heart failure

Left Ventricular Assist Device
The mechanical assistance device that helps in left heart failure.

New prospects for treatment of late-stage heart disease
A look at the newer developments that science has made available for advanced heart disease, from the Mayo Clinic.

Treating Congestive Heart Failure
New drugs are being discovered which may give hope to people with advanced congestive heart failure.