Talk:Heart failure

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 Definition Defective cardiac filling and/or impaired contraction and emptying, resulting in the heart's inability to pump a sufficient amount of blood to meet the needs of the body tissues or to be able to do so only with an elevated filling pressure. [d] [e]
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Loop diuretics and digitalis?

Have I missed a more recent study, or should these be included still, digoxin or the like certainly not as initial therapy? Howard C. Berkowitz 21:47, 4 June 2008 (CDT)