Muhammad Ali Yaseen, Khurrum Saleem, Anser Asrar.
Effects of carvedilol as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of chronic heart failure.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;4(4):334-7.

Heart failure is an imbalance in pump function in which heart fails to maintain the circulation of blood adequately. Progressive and debilitating heart failure affects almost 5 million, mostly elderly, individuals in United States. As the elderly population is growing in coming decades, the prevalence of heart failure is expected to increase substantially. Moreover, despite modern management, heart failure has dismissal prognosis, with only 50% of the patients surviving five years after diagnosis. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of carvedilol as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of chronic heart failure in patients admitted in West medical and cardiology wards of mayo hospital Lahore. A Quasi experimental study was conducted including 100 patients of chronic heart failure for 6 months and it concluded that In patients of chronic heart failure, the addition of carvedilol to standard therapy ameliorates the severity of heart failure and reduces the risk of clinical deterioration, and other serious adverse clinical events.

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