[Chronic systolic heart failure - dosing recommendations at beginning and end of treatment].

As a multi-system disease, chronic heart failure requires a complex, multimodal therapy. Achieving maximum guideline adherence in (advanced) chronic heart failure can therefore become a challenge. The important decrease in morbidity and mortality seen lately largely depends on consequent and sometime tedious implementation of guideline targets. The present paper provides a comprehensive overview on medical therapeutic strategies with a particular focus of onset and discontinuation of drugs in patients with chronic systolic dysfunction.