The seventh annual scientific meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America convenes this week in Las Vegas, with more than 25 hundred-health professionals expected.  The latest research, options for medical therapy and care for heart failure patients will be presented.  Member of the executive council of the Heart Failure Society and Director of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Unit at Case Western Reserve, Doctor Ileana Pina:

�The good care of the heart failure patient takes a team-effort and that�s another message that we�re always giving.  This is a team-approach, we are constantly teaching our patients that they can live good lives, that they can live very productive lives even with heart failure.�

Heart failure is a growing epidemic with four hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand new cases diagnosed each year.  Over twenty-two billion dollars annually is spent on patients diagnosed with heart failure who are hospitalized with eighty percent of this cost borne by Medicare.  For more information visit w-w-w-dot-h-f-s-a-dot-o-r-g.

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