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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.

09/08/2011 00:00:00

Read the summary of the ESC/EAS Guidelines on Dyslipidaemias

In 2011 a new fundamental consensus the first guidelines on the management of dyslipidaemias, jointly produced by the European Society of Cardiology and the European Atherosclerosis Society, was released for European clinicians to face the global epidemic of cardiovascular (CV) disease of the 21st century.

Summary of the ESC Guidelines on Peripheral Artery Diseases

For the first time the European Society of Cardiology issued guidelines on Peripheral Artery Diseases in 2011.

The ESC PAD guidelines are unique in that they provide recommendations for all areas along the cardiovascular continuum, thereby presenting the current up-to-date data from evidence-based studies, under consideration of surgical revascularisation procedures and the increasing use of catheter-based revascularisation intervention.

Read the summary presented by Udo Schwehr MD, FESC.

Four new practice guidelines for 2011

Chairperson of the ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines, Jeroen Bax, discusses the four new ESC Guidelines completed this year:

Management of Cardiovascular Diseases during Pregnancy
Management of Dyslipidaemias
Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Artery Diseases
Management of acute coronary syndromes in patients without persistent ST-segment elevation

35 ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines

Date	Title	Topic
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 and Chronic Heart Failure	Heart Failure (HF)
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	CVD Prevention in clinical practice (European Guidelines on)	Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management
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