Acute and Chronic Heart Failure

Topics: Heart Failure (HF)

Summary

Authors

Kenneth Dickstein (Chairperson),  Panos E Vardas (Chairperson),  Angelo Auricchio, Jean-Claude Daubert, Alain Cohen Solal, Gerasimos Filippatos, Cecilia Linde, John JV McMurray, Piotr Ponikowski, Philip A Poole-Wilson, Anna Stromberg, Dirk J Van Veldhuisen, Dan Atar, Arno W Hoes, Andre Keren, Alexandre Mebazaa, Markku Nieminen, Silvia G Priori, Richard Sutton, Karl Swederg,

Table of Contents : Full Text (ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines)

• Preamble
• Introduction
• Definition and diagnosis
• Diagnosis techniques
• Non-pharmacological management
• Pharmacological therapy
• Devices and surgery
• Arrhythmia in heart failure
• Co-morbididities and special populations
• Acute heart failure
• Implementation and delivery of care
• Gaps in evidence
• Glossary
• References 

Table of contents of the Short Update

• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy with pacemaker/defibrillator function in patients with heart failure in NYHA function class III/V
• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy with defibrillator function in patients with heart failure in NYHA function class I/II
• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy with pacemaker/defibrillator function in patients with heart failure and permanent atrial fibrillation
• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy with pacemaker/defibrillator function in patients with heart failure and conventional pacemaker indication
• Left ventricular assist device as destination therapy for patients with severe heart failure ineligible for cardiac transplatation
• Evidence tables
• References

Previous versions

Chronic Heart Failure

2005	ESC Web Site	Full Text - Diagnosis and Treatment
2001	Eur Heart J 2001;22: 1527-1560	Full Text - Diagnosis and Treatment
1997	Eur Heart J 2002;23:1809–1840	Full Text - Treatmemt
1995	Eur Heart J 1995; 16, 741 - 751	Full Text - Diagnosis

Acute Heart Failure

2005	ESC Web Site	Full Text - Diagnosis and Treatment
2005	Eur Heart J 2005; 26: 1115-1140	Executive Summary - Acute Heart Failure