Heart failure is heart failure. The best treatment for elderly heart failure patients is a combination of lifestyle modification, medication and surgical devices.
1. Lifestyle modification: patients need to adopt a heart-healthy lifestyle, such as low-salt and low-fat diets, quitting smoking and drinking, proper exercise, preventing colds, and monitoring weight changes.
2. Drug therapy: patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions for long-term oral treatment of related drugs such as spironolactone, valsartan, furosemide, metoprolol and so on.
3. Surgical device treatment: patients can use cardiac resynchronization therapy, left ventricular assist device or heart transplantation therapy under the guidance of doctors when necessary.
Elderly heart failure patients need to go to the hospital regularly to adjust the medication and follow the doctor’s instructions for regular review.