Heart Failure Specialists in Maharashtra

Treatment & Types of Heart Failure in Maharashtra

Treatment involves medications including ACE inhibitors or ARBs, beta-blockers, diuretics to reduce fluid overload, and newer agents such as SGLT2 inhibitors, all aimed at reducing symptoms and improving heart function. Lifestyle measures such as salt and fluid restriction, weight monitoring, and regular but appropriately paced physical activity are important components of management. Advanced cases may require devices such as pacemakers or defibrillators, or in severe cases, heart transplantation.

Heart failure is classified as heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, where the heart muscle is weakened and cannot contract properly, and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, where the heart contracts normally but has become stiff and cannot relax and fill adequately between beats. It is also staged by symptom severity using functional classifications, ranging from no symptoms with normal activity to severe symptoms occurring even at rest, which guides treatment intensity.