Guideline contributor: Henry H Ooi, MD, MRCPI, Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program, Nashville Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Heart failure criteria, classification, and staging Framingham classification ...
Mueller S, Winzer EB, Duvinage A, et al.Effect of high-intensity interval training, moderate continuous training, or guideline-based physical activity advice on peak oxygen consumption in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a randomized clinical trial.JAMA. 2021;325(6):5...
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The prevalence of heart failure is on the rise and associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Optimal primary prophylaxis, early diagnosis and guideline-conform pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical treatment can alleviate the clinical symptoms, prevent recurrent hospitalization and prolong patient ...
2“Since then, more than 10 randomized controlled trials have been released that should change patient management ahead of the next scheduled full guideline, necessitating a focused update. New recommendations are provided in three areas: chronic heart failure, acute heart failure, and comorbidities....
(ESC). With the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC’.3Since the publication of the 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure (HF)4, ...
Guidelines on fluid and sodium intake in patients with acute and chronic heart failure (HF) were published in April 2024 by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in the European Journal of Heart Failure.[1] The recommendations are outlined below. For the purposes of these guidelines, ...
Interim Focused Updates are created when the publication of new evidence could influence clinical practice before the next full update of a guideline is published. This Focused Update provides new and revised recommendations for the 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chr...
[29]The ESC HF guideline document specifies the risk factors that can trigger acute decompensation of chronic cardiac failure, such as surgery or stress, but neither medical compression therapy nor manual drainage are mentioned amo...
CAD: coronary artery disease; CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; CRT: cardiac resynchronization therapy; ESC: European Society of Cardiology; GDMT: guideline-directed medical therapy; HF: heart failure; HTx: heart transplantation; LVAD: left ventricular assist devices; LV: left ventr...