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Pocket Guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

ESC Pocket Guidelines

Topic(s):

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)

Chronic Heart Failure

Acute Heart Failure

Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

Cardiovascular Nursing

Heart Failure

Publication Date: August 2021
Chairperson: Theresa A. McDonagh and Marco Metra

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Definition and classification
Diagnosis of chronic heart failure
Pharmacological treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
Cardiac rhythm management for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
Treatment of heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction
Treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Multidisciplinary team management for the treatment of chronic heart failure
Advanced heart failure
Acute heart failure
Cardiovascular comorbidities
- Atrial fibrillation
- Chronic coronary syndromes
- Valvular heart disease
- Hypertension
- Stroke
Non-cardiovascular comorbidities
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Frailty
- Iron deficiency
- Kidney dysfunction
- Electrolyte disorders
- Gout and arthritis
- Erectile dysfunction
- Depression
- Cancer
- Infections
Special conditions
- Pregnancy
- Cardiomyopathies
- Myocarditis
- Amyloidosis