It is not true that you can only survive heart failure for 5 years, and with aggressive treatment, you can still survive heart failure for many years. Heart failure is a serious heart disease, including acute heart failure and chronic heart failure. There are many causes of heart failure, such as hypertension, myocardial infarction, dilated cardiomyopathy, valvular disease and so on. Acute heart failure can be partially or completely restored after active drug treatment or relief of the cause of the disease, and the prognosis is still good. Chronic heart failure in the compensatory period, can be intervened or surgery combined with drug treatment to alleviate the condition. Conventional drug therapy such as cardiotonic, diuretic, vasodilator, improve myocardial remodeling, etc., can improve cardiac function, restore part of cardiac function, and have a good prognosis. For decompensated chronic heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy or heart transplantation can be chosen, and still can survive for a longer period of time. Warm tips: heart failure to take active and effective treatment means can significantly extend the survival period. Therefore, if you feel unwell, you must seek medical treatment in time.