Heart failure remains a common diagnosis, especially in older individuals. It continues to be
associated with significant morbidity and mortality, but major advances in both diagnosis …

Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that normally requires health care to be provided by both
specialists and nonspecialists. This is advantageous because patients benefit from …

Guidelines and Expert Consensus Documents produced by Task Forces, expert groups, or
consensus panels. The chosen experts in these writing panels are asked to provide …

These Guidelines are based on the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Guidelines published in
1995 and 1997 [1, 2], respectively, and have now been combined into one paper. Where …

Heart failure is common, yet it is difficult to treat. It presents in many different guises and
circumstances in which therapy needs to be individualized. The Canadian Cardiovascular …

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is associated with a heavy burden of disease for patients and
healthcare professionals. Quality of life and long-term prognosis for affected patients remain …

The aim of this report is to provide practical guidelines for the diagnosis, assessment and
treatment of heart failure for use in clinical practice and in addition for epidemiological …

It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the …

The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force
on Practice Guidelines regularly reviews existing guidelines to determine when an update or …

ContextAdvanced heart failure, defined as persistence of limiting symptoms despite therapy
with agents of proven efficacy, accounts for the majority of morbidity and mortality in heart …