[Progress in medical treatment of heart failure].

Heart failure is one of the most important diseases in the recent years. Because of the advances in the cardiological practice, it can be identified frequently knowing much better pathophysiological mechanism and the investigation of different drugs for the improvement in symptomatology and the functional class of this patients. The first step is taking care about the diet, which it has to be sodium free, a restrictive about intake. The second step is the use of diuretics and digitalis that has been used for many years. About the new treatment in the medical therapy is the point that we analyze in the present work and we think that in the future this alternatives will be much better and incorporated to the basic therapeutics.