Committee on Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Learn more about the purpose of this committee and who its members are

Mission statement

The committee on “Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction” of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology promotes, coordinates and overlooks study and research on the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of “Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction” within the Heart Failure Association.

“Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction” is defined in accordance to the consensus document of the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations (Eur Heart J 2007;28:2539-50) as a condition characterized by the simultaneous presence of symptoms or signs of fluid overload, a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction and evidence of diastolic left ventricular dysfunction.

The Committee on Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction organised a highly successful Workshop:

International Conference on Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Basic Mechanisms

on 23 - 25 September 2011 in Budapest, Hungary. Over 70 people attended to listen and participate. Production of a paper covering the results of the discussions is now underway

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Coordinator

Prof B Pieske, FESC (Graz, AT), email

Committee

Nucleus members
W Paulus	FESC (Amsterdam, NL)	A Leite-Moreira	(Porto, PT)
C Tschoepe	Berlin, DE	S Heymans	(Maastricht, NL)
O Smiseth	FESC (Oslo, NO)	G Ambrosio	FESC (Perugia,IT)
F Rademakers	FESC (Leuven, BE)	V Melenovsky	(Prague, CZ)
P Marino	FESC (Novara, IT)	E Donal	FESC (Rennes, FR)
M Fu	(Gothenburg, SE)
M Frenneaux	FESC (Aberdeen, GB)	Z Papp	FESC (Debrecen, HU)
A Fraser	FESC (Cardiff, GB) EAE representative	F Flachskampf	FESC (Uppsala, SE) EAE representative
D Brutsaert	EFESC (Antwerp, BE) sui-generis	P Ponikowski	FESC (Wroclaw, PL) (ex-officio)
Affiliates
H-D Duengen	(Berlin, DE)	F Edelmann	(Goettingen, DE)
F Rutten	(Utrecht, NL)	M Maeder	(St Gallen, CH)
R Wachter	(Goettingen, DE)

Priorities

Revision of Consensus Document
Publication of manuscripts from 2009 meeting (first paper published - see above)
Continuation of biannual meeting: small focussed meeting in 2011, followed by a general meeting in 2013

Papers

Read Professor Pieske's Editorial:
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction—a growing epidemic or
‘The Emperor's New Clothes?’
European Heart Journal (January 2011)

NEW PUBLICATION from Graz meeting

This editorial refers to ‘Epidemiology and clinical course of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction’ by C.S.P. Lam et al.
European Journal of Heart Failure Volume 13, Issue 1

Consensus Document of the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology (Eur Heart J 2007;28:2539-50) Read the full text.

The Committee organised a successful symposium on Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in October 2009 in Graz, Austria

Organisation:
Prof. Dr. Burkert Pieske
Department of Cardiology, Medical University Graz, Austria

Scientific Committee:
Burkert Pieske, Austria
Walter Paulus, FESC, The Netherlands
Dirk Brutsaert, EFESC, Belgium
John McMurray, FESC, UK