News in the pharmacological treatment of chronic heart failure

Abstract

Heart failure is currently one of the great epidemics of the century, that during the past two decades has increased dramatically and exponentially, ranking as the leading cause of morbidity and hospitalization worldwide up to 159% and ranking 10% morbidity of the Mexican population. That’s why today has changed dramatically the course of drug treatment, palliation aside from the complications of the disease evolution, toward identifying and breaking most accurate links in the chain of events adaptative physiological triggered by it, which in recent years has proven to be the direct cause of pathological progression of the disease and the exacerbation of a positive feedback system is magnified himself. Thus, in this review referred to the various compensatory mechanisms of heart failure, such as direct targets of current drug treatment, starting from the archives of the Spanish Journal of Cardiology and internal Medicine Mexican Magazine. With this new approach seeks to reduce mortality and hospitalization rates significantly, while improving the quality of life of people who have it.