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Can A Person Having Heart Failure And Low Ejection Fraction Gets Better?

Can a person with heart failure with a ejection faction of between 15/20 get better and live a 5 years are longer by just taking meds and taking Dr orders and doing as your told? My age is 49 and we think a virus caused heart failure and not good heart failure treatment and heart got worse ! Drop from 45 ejection fraction to 15/20
Wed, 21 Aug 2013
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Usage of proper medication regularly will surely improve ejection fraction,first of all we should treat the cause if heartfailure along with diuretics,b blockers,digoxin
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Can A Person Having Heart Failure And Low Ejection Fraction Gets Better?

Usage of proper medication regularly will surely improve ejection fraction,first of all we should treat the cause if heartfailure along with diuretics,b blockers,digoxin