Surgical treatment of heart failure?

Some patients with heart failure can be treated by surgery according to the cause, which can improve the prognosis and even achieve the goal of radical cure.

Surgical valve replacement and repair: Severe valve diseases and congenital heart diseases should be treated by appropriate surgery.

Coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting: Heart failure caused by ischemia should be actively reconstructed.

Cardioverter defibrillator (ICD): The incidence of sudden death in patients with heart failure is 6-9 times that of the general population. ICD can identify malignant arrhythmia and implement treatment, effectively preventing sudden death caused by fatal arrhythmia.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy with CRT: quite a few patients with moderate and severe heart failure have unsynchronized ventricular contractions, which reduces the pumping function of the heart. In order to correct the asynchrony of cardiac contraction, the doctor may suggest that you implant CRT to improve the symptoms of heart failure.

Left ventricular assist device: it can replace the heart to pump blood until surgery or as a long-term treatment. Used for patients with severe heart failure.

Heart transplantation: Patients with end-stage heart failure should undergo heart transplantation as soon as possible after being evaluated by doctors, if the conditions are suitable. The treatment effect is good.