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ESC Heart Failure

Open-access research on all aspects of heart failure and its comorbidities: advancing knowledge about heart failure worldwide

 

ESC Heart Failure is the open access journal of the Heart Failure Association.

The journal improves the understanding, prevention, investigation and treatment of heart failure. Molecular and cellular biology, pathology, physiology, electrophysiology, pharmacology, as well as the clinical, social and population sciences all form part of the discipline that is heart failure.

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Fast Facts

  • Editor-in-Chief: Professor Piotr Ponikowski (PL)
  • Current volume: 11 (year 2025)
  • Issues per volume: 6
  • Impact Factor 2023 : 3.2

Editor-in-Chief History

Name Start Date End Date
Professor Stefan D. Anker 01/01/2014 31/08/2022
Professor Magnus Bäck (Interim Editor-in-Chief) 01/09/2022 31/03/2024
Professor Piotr Ponikowski  01/04/2024  
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Most recent articles from ESC HF

28 Nov 2025
Real‐world effectiveness of targeted therapies in ATTR cardiomyopathy: A meta‐analysis integrating population‐based data
Author(s): Alexios S. Antonopoulos, Theodoros Tsampras, Dimitrios Terentes‐Printzios, George Lazaros, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Charalambos Vlachopoulos
26 Nov 2025
Economic burden of heart failure in Europe: A systematic review of costs and cost‐effectiveness
Author(s): Josep Darbà, Meritxell Ascanio, Antonio Rodríguez, Sarah J. Charman, Nduka C. Okwose, Renae J. Stefanetti, Amy Groenewegen, Annamaria Del Franco, Maria Tafelmeier, Andrej Preveden, Amy S. Fuller, Fatima Bano, David R. Sinclair, Duncan Edwards, Anne P. Nelissen, Petros N. Malitas, Aikaterini Zisaki, Zoran Bosnić, Petar Vračar, Alessandra Fornaro, Fausto Barlocco, Dimitris Fotiadis, Prithwish Banerjee, Guy A. MacGowan, Oscar Fernandez, José Luis Zamorano, Marta Jimenez‐Blanco Bravo, Lars S. Maier, Iacopo Olivotto, Massimo Milli, Frans H. Rutten, Jonathan Mant, Lazar Velicki, Petar M. Seferovic, Nenad Filipovic, Djordje G. Jakovljevic, and on behalf of STRATIFYHF investigators, Laura Sasso, Alessandra Milazzo, Giulia Taborchi, Serena Fatucchi, Aleksandra Milovancev, Kate Williams, Patience Jecheche, Borut Flis, Dimitrios Boucharas, Dimitris Manousos, Manolis Tsiknakis, Thomas Kassiotis, Tijana Sustersic, Bogdan Milicevic, Marija Gacic, Milica Kaplarevic, F.D. Richard Hobbs, Onno Kaagman
27 Nov 2025
Inflammation and genetics in myo‐pericardial diseases: Insights from the Italian Study Group on Cardiomyopathies and Pericardial Diseases
Author(s): Marco Merlo, Giulia Bassetto, Antonio Cannatà, Alberto Aimo, Camillo Autore, Barbara Bauce, Elena Biagini, Francesco Cappelli, Silvia Castelletti, Flavio D'Ascenzi, Cesare de Gregorio, Giuseppe Limongelli, Francesca Marzo, Beatrice Musumeci, Giacomo Tini, Roberto Pedrinelli, Pasquale Perrone Filardi, Gianfranco Sinagra, Massimo Imazio
19 Nov 2025
Indirect mitral annuloplasty in patients with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: A real‐world, single‐centre experience
Author(s): Holger Priebe‐Brämer, Firas Jaly, Nithusa Rahunathan, Mark Luedde, Alexander Albert, Klaus K. Witte, Hans‐Joerg Hippe