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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

18 Jul 2025
Socioeconomic determinants of vaccination against pneumococcus in 763 945 patients with heart failure
Author(s): F. Roubille, B. Wyplosz, J. Fernandes, B. Grenier, F. Raguideau, E. Blanc, G. Goussiaume
18 Jul 2025
The pulmonary artery pulsatility index in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing valve replacement
Author(s): Laura A. Rechsteiner, Lukas Weber, Philipp K. Haager, Johannes Rigger, Joannis Chronis, Peter Ammann, Roman Brenner, Martin O. Schmiady, Hans Rickli, Micha T. Maeder
18 Jul 2025
Patients report increased control and decreased impact of heart failure during pulmonary pressure‐guided management
Author(s): Lisa D. Rathman, Samuel F. Sears, Marie‐Elena Brett, John D. Henderson, Natalie R. Castillo, Philip B. Adamson, Lynne W. Stevenson
18 Jul 2025
Refractory anaemia in a patient with end‐stage heart failure secondary to aortic stenosis
Author(s): Jiayu Liang, Suxin Luo, Bi Huang