2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies

ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines

15 Nov 2023

The objective of this guideline is to help healthcare professionals diagnose and manage patients with cardiomyopathies of all ages according to the best available evidence and to provide a practical diagnostic and treatment framework for patients and their relatives. This is a new guideline, not an update of existing guidelines, with the exception of the section on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), in which we have provided a focused update to the 2014 ESC Guidelines on diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. As such, most of the recommendations in this guideline are new. It is beyond the scope of this guideline to provide detailed descriptions and recommendations for each individual cardiomyopathy phenotype; instead, the aim is to provide a guide to the diagnostic approach to cardiomyopathies, highlight general evaluation and management issues, and signpost the reader to the relevant evidence base for the recommendations.

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Topic(s):

Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Arrhythmias, General

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Transesophageal Echocardiography

Imaging of Cardiac Morphology, Dimensions, Volume, and Mass

Stroke Prevention

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance: Morphology, Dimensions, Volumes and Mass

Cardiac Computed Tomography: Myocardial Disease

Imaging of Systolic and Diastolic Function

Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Echocardiography

Echocardiography: Myocardial Disease

Prevention

Clinical Skills

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance: Systolic and Diastolic Function

Imaging of Myocardial Disease

Doppler Echocardiography

Diagnostic Methods

T1 and T2 Mapping

Chronic Heart Failure

Pathophysiology and Mechanisms

Clinical

History Taking

Cardiac Computed Tomography: Morphology, Dimensions, Volumes and Mass

Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Echocardiography: Morphology, Dimensions, Volumes and Mass

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance: Myocardial Disease

Treatment

Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Physical Examination

Echocardiography: Systolic and Diastolic Function

Endorsed by cardiac societies

Austrian Society of Cardiology , Armenian Cardiologists Association , Azerbaijan Society of Cardiology , Belgian Society of Cardiology , Association of Cardiologists of Bosnia & Herzegovina , British Cardiovascular Society , Bulgarian Society of Cardiology , Croatian Cardiac Society , Czech Society of Cardiology , Danish Society of Cardiology , Estonian Society of Cardiology , Egyptian Society of Cardiology , Finnish Cardiac Society , French Society of Cardiology , Georgian Society of Cardiology , German Cardiac Society , Hellenic Society of Cardiology , Hungarian Society of Cardiology , Irish Cardiac Society , Israel Heart Society , Italian Federation of Cardiology , Kosovo Society of Cardiology , Kyrgyz Society of Cardiology , Lithuanian Society of Cardiology , Luxembourg Society of Cardiology , Maltese Cardiac Society , Moroccan Society of Cardiology , Norwegian Society of Cardiology , Polish Cardiac Society , Portuguese Society of Cardiology , Romanian Society of Cardiology , San Marino Society of Cardiology , Cardiology Society of Serbia , Slovak Society of Cardiology , Spanish Society of Cardiology , Swiss Society of Cardiology , Turkish Society of Cardiology , Ukrainian Association of Cardiology

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