Acute and Chronic Heart Failure

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Definition & Diagnosis
• The role of cardiac imaging in the evaluation of patients with suspected or confirmed HF
• Other investigations
• Prognosis
• Pharmacological treatment of HF-REF (systolic heart failure)
• Pharmacological treatment of HF-PEF (diastolic heart failure)
• Non-surgiccal device tretment of HF-REF (systolic heart failure)
• Arrhythmias, bradycardia and atrioventricular block in patients with HF-REf & HF-PEF
• Importance & management of other comorbidity in HF-REF & HF-PEF
• Acute Heart Failure
• Coronary revascularization and surgery, including valve surgery, ventricular assist devices and transplatation
• Holistic management, including exercice training and multidisciplinary management programmes, patient monitoring and palliative care