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Guidelines aim to present all the relevant evidence on a particular clinical issue in order to help physicians to weigh the benefits and risks of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic procedure. They should be helpful in everyday clinical medical decision-making.

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Heart Failure Guidelines: the 2012 version available!

The Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure make recommendations based upon evidence for established and new diagnostic tests and therapies for heart failure. If implemented, they offer a real opportunity to improve the outcome of patients with this condition.

TEVAR, a new publication available

A new publication from EACTS and the ESC is now available on Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) for the treatment of aortic diseases. This document acts as a position statement for both societies that reflects current understanding of thoracic aortic endovascular therapy.

New Prevention Guidelines take centre stage

For the first time ESC Guidelines were launched at a sub-specialty cardiology meeting, as opposed to the more usual annual ESC Congress meeting.

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New guidelines deliver concise messages for implementing cardiovascular prevention
Joep Perk introduces the new Guidelines
East meets West on Guidelines
Implementing prevention strategies at the National level

New guidelines deliver concise messages for implementing cardiovascular prevention

The guidelines stress that CVD prevention should be a “life long effort” that starts in the womb and lasts to the end of life. Greater emphasis has been placed on the behavioural aspects of prevention, with discussion of ways to make it easier for patients to change their life styles. Joep Perk, Ian Graham and Guy de Backer interviewed. Read more

2012 Guidelines on CVD Prevention available

The new version of the European Guidelines on CVD Prevention in Clinical Practice, launched during the EuroPrevent 2012 Congress is now available.

35 ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines

Date	Title	Topic
2012	Acute and Chronic Heart Failure	Heart Failure (HF)
2012	CVD Prevention in clinical practice (European Guidelines on)	Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management
2011	Dyslipidaemias (Management of)	Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management
2011	Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation (Management of)	Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)
2011	Cardiovascular Diseases during Pregnancy (Management of)	Pregnancy and Heart Disease
2011	Peripheral Artery Diseases (Diagnosis and Treatment of)	Peripheral Arterial Diseases
2010	Myocardial Revascularisation (Guidelines for)	Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)
2010	Atrial Fibrillation (Management of)	Atrial Fibrillation
2010	Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease (Management of)	Congenital Heart Disease
2010	Device Therapy in Heart Failure (Focused Update)	Heart Failure (HF)
2009	Infective Endocarditis (Guidelines on Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of)	Infective Endocarditis
2009	Syncope (Guidelines on Diagnosis and Management of)	Syncope
2009	Pre-operative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Perioperative Cardiac Management in Non-Cardiac Surgery	The Cardiac Consult
2009	Pulmonary Hypertension (Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment of)	Pulmonary Hypertension
2008	Acute Myocardial Infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation (Management of)	Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)
2008	Acute Pulmonary Embolism (Diagnosis and Management of)	Thromboembolic Venous Disease
2007	Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy	Arrhythmias
2007	Valvular Heart Disease (Management of)	Valvular Heart Diseases
2007	Arterial Hypertension (Management of)	Hypertension
2007	Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases	Diabetic heart disease
2007	Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction	Myocardial Disease
2007	The Role of Endomyocardial Biopsy in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease	Myocardial Disease
2006	Stable Angina Pectoris (Management of)	Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD)
2006	Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death (ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With)	Arrhythmias
2004	Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Cardiovascular Disease (Expert Consensus Document on)	Clinical pharmacology
2004	B-Adrenergic Receptor Blockers (Expert Consensus Document on)	Clinical pharmacology
2004	Pericardial Diseases (Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of)	Pericardial Disease
2004	Antiplatelet Agents (Expert Consensus Document on the Use of)	Clinical pharmacology
2003	Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (Clinical Expert Consensus Document on)	Myocardial Disease
2003	Supraventricular Arrhythmias (ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients with)	Arrhythmias
2003	Medical Practice Guidelines: Separating science from economics
2003	Estimation of ten-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in Europe: the SCORE project	Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management
2002	Chest Pain (Management of)	Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)
2002	Neonatal Electrocardiogram (Guidelines for the interpretation of the)	Congenital Heart Disease
2001	Aortic Dissection (Diagnosis and Management of)	Diseases of the Aorta and Trauma to the Aorta and Heart