Topics:
Heart Failure (HF)
Summary
Professor Bax talks about the ESC Guidelines
These guidelines make recommendations based upon evidence for established and new diagnostic tests and therapies for heart failure. If implemented, they offer a real opportunitiy to improve the outcome of patients with this condition.
19/05/2012 00:00:00
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Authors
John J.V. McMurray (Chairperson), Stamatis Adamopoulos, Stefan D. Anker, Angelo Auricchio, Michael Boehm, Kenneth Dickstein, Volkmar Falk, Gerasimos Filippatos, Candida Fonseca, Miguel Angel Gomez Sanchez, Tiny Jaarsma, Lars Kober, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Aldo Pietro Maggioni, Alexander Parkhomenko, Burket M. Pieske, Bogdan A. Popescu, Per K. Roennevik, Frans H. Rutten, Juerg Schwitter, Petar Seferovic, Janina Stepinska, Pedro T. Trindade, Adriaan A. Voors, Faiez Zannad, Andreas Zeiher
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Table of Contents : Full Text (ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines)
- Preamble
- Introduction
- Definition and diagnosis
- The role of cardiac imaging in the evaluation of patients with suspected or confirmed heart failure
- Other investigations
- Devices and surgery
- Prognosis
- Pharmacological treatment of HF-REF (systolic heart failure)
- Pharmacological treatment of HF-PEF (diastolic heart failure)
- Non surgical device treatment of HF-REF (systolic heart failure)
- Arrhythmias, bradycardia and atrioventricular block in patients with HF-REF and HF-PEF
- Importance and management of other comorbidity in HF-REF and HF-PEF
- Acute heart fialure
- Coronary revascularization and surgery, including valve surgery, ventricular assist devices and transplantation
- Holistic managment, including exercise training and mutidisciplinary management programmes, patient monotoring and palliative care
Previous versions
Chronic Heart Failure
Acute Heart Failure