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Sometimes medicines don’t control heart failure. This is especially true if the disease is advanced. But there are other treatment options:
- Special devices may help the heart to pump more evenly when the right and left sides don’t pump with the same strength. This treatment is called biventricular pacing.
- Mechanical assist devices help the heart to pump. They include heart-valve replacements that can help the heart to pump better and machines that temporarily pump blood for the heart.
- Heart transplant surgery is for patients with badly damaged hearts. There are only a small number of hearts available each year, so very few patients can have this procedure.
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