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Although the syndrome of congestive heart failure has been recognized many years ago, the approach for its evaluation and treatment has until recently, been partial and ‘fragmentary’. Various aspects of the disease have been treated according to the evaluation tools and therapeutic measures available at each period. This approach resulted in some of the greatest achievements in the management of heart failure but also left many aspects neglected and also resulted in several paradoxes.
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Schneeweiss, A. (1991). Introduction. In: Viefhues, H., Schoene, W., Rychlik, R., Kimchi, A., Lewis, B.S., Weiss, M. (eds) Chronic Heart Failure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76433-2_1
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