Can you cure congestive heart failure?

Control: We have medications to treat the symptoms of heart failure. But most of the time we are not actually curing it but controlling it. There are occasional types of heart failure that actually go away and in that case, i guess the word cure would be appropriate. Similarly, if you have high blood pressure, medicine can control it but in most cases, you have to keep taking the medications.

No: Heart failure is a progressive condition that is often an end result of coronary disease, uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes, or due to genetic conditions. Sometimes viral infections can cause a myocarditis, which in some patients will progress to cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Current treatments (pharmacological and electrical) can slow the progression of heart failure, but not cure it.

No: Unfortunately, most types of heart failure tend to be a progressive disease. How quickly heart failure progresses depends on the cause and how well it is controlled- i.e. If the heart failure is the result of uncontrolled high blood pressure, good blood pressure control will dramatically slow progression of the disease.

No: Congestive heart failure possess a bad prognosis. It signals the end of the function of the heart. Nowadays there are encouraging success stories treating the heart with stem cells to regenerate or produce new cardiac cells that may reshape or rejuvenate the heart in research centers but still it is not the standard of care. Combinations of multiple medicines have prolonged life in pts. With chf.

Control but no cure: Over a period of 15 years or so, various new treatments have been introduced which have led to a much improved outlook for people with heart failure. http://patient.info/health/heart-failure-leaflet

Cure is wrong word: as CHF can be controlled and compensated. Very few are "cured" if you remove the reason for the heart failure (and the patient gets "lucky") as in alcohol induced cardiomyopathy or ischemia or post partum cardiomyopathy and a few with viral etiology. Most important: CHF can be prevented by treating early the disease conducing to it (like hypertension, heart attacks, diabetes, smoking, etc)