… Together with the Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure 1
these Guidelines form the recommendations on diagnosis and treatment of heart failure …

… heart failure 2008: the Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart
failure … Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA) and …

The ACC/AHA Heart Failure Performance Measures Writing … the diagnosis and treatment
of heart failure (HF). These … In a concurrent process, the ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical …

… its heart failure research activities in the coming years. We are grateful to the task force chair…
causes of and improving the treatment for heart failure. Because of this progress and recent …

… -cause mortality in patients with heart failure and reduced left … in patients with heart failure,
including pharmacological … Accordingly, the Task Force felt strongly that the selection of …

The task of developing ESC Guidelines covers not only the integration of the most recent
research, but also the creation of educational tools and implementation programmes for the …

… We recognize the importance of these areas in the overall management of patients with
heart failure. The task force did not deal with issues relating to the diagnosis of heart failure, nor …

… the AHA, 1 reviewer nominated by the Heart Failure Society of America, 1 reviewer nominated
by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1 reviewer nominated by …

… from ‘heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction’ to ‘heart failure with mildly … Heart failure
is usually divided into two presentations: chronic heart failure (CHF) and acute heart failure (…

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted through October 2011 and includes selected other …