The new Heart Failure Association journal – ESC Heart Failure

Adherence to the ESC Heart Failure Treatment Guidelines in Spain: ESC Heart Failure Long-term Registry.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To estimate the percentage of heart failure patients in Spain that received the European Society of Cardiology recommended treatments, and in those that did not, to determine the reasons why. METHODS The study included 2834 consecutive ambulatory patients with heart failure from 27 Spanish hospitals. We recorded general information, the treatment indicated, and the...

The 2012 ESC Guidelines on Heart Failure.

The latest Guidelines feature new evidence on diagnosis, drugs, and devices The ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 were developed by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC. They were presented for the first time in May 2012 at the Heart Failure Congress in Belgrade, Serbia,...

New ESC heart failure guidelines with South African expert comment.

The new ESC heart failure guidelines, an update of the 2008 version, was released at the ESC Heart Failure Congress in Belgrade this weekend. This is the first time the guidelines have been presented at the Heart Failure Congress as opposed to at the annual European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress. Major updates are in the provision of new algorithms for the diagnosis of patients with susp...

Circulation Journal of the American Heart Association Heart Failure 1 Death in Heart Failure : a Community Perspective

Emerging Drug Therapies for Heart Failure

Heart failure is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is proving to be an economic burden in developing countries. A number of therapeutic agents are presently employed in heart failure; but they are not sufficient to control symptoms of heart failure. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic heart failure is progressively increasing and thus there is a continuing need to develop effecti...