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Start date: May 11, 2024 End date: May 14, 2024
The Heart Failure Congress stands as the foremost global event encompassing the entire spectrum of heart failure. Hosted annually by the Heart Failure Association of the ESC, its overarching mission revolves around enhancing the quality of life and longevity. This mission is pursued through advancements in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart failure, along with the establishment of… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Mihai Gheorghiade Added: 3 years ago
An episode of acute heart failure syndromes (AHFS) can be defined as a rapid or gradual onset of signs and symptoms of heart failure that result in hospital admission. Over 70% of AHFS events are the result of worsening chronic heart failure.1 Other causes of AHFS include new-onset heart failure due to an acute coronary event, such as a myocardial infarction (MI), and end-stage or refractory… View more

Heart Failure
Acute Heart Failure Syndromes
Author(s): Mihai Gheorghiade Added: 3 years ago
An episode of acute heart failure syndromes (AHFS) can be defined as a rapid or gradual onset of signs and symptoms of heart failure that result in hospital admission. Over 70% of AHFS events are the result of worsening chronic heart failure. Other causes of AHFS include new-onset heart failure due to an acute coronary event, such as a myocardial infarction (MI), and end-stage or refractory heart… View more

Heart Failure
Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure
Author(s): Erik B Friedrich , Michael Böhm Added: 3 years ago
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major public health problem in industrialized societies with an incidence approaching 10 per 1,000 population after age 65 and an age-dependent prevalence of less than 1% between ages 45-55, 2-5% between ages 65-75, and approximately 10% for patients aged 80 years or more.Thus, HF is primarily a condition of the elderly and approximately 80% of patients… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Brian Pearlman , Taffere Mihretu Added: 3 years ago
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a rapidly growing public health problem, affecting nearly five million people in the US alone, with nearly half a million new cases annually.The prevalence of CHF is highest in the elderly; ten out of every 1,000 persons over age 65 are affected. Anemia has been considered a modifiable comorbidity in heart failure. Utilizing the World Health Organization (WHO)… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Clyde W Yancy Added: 3 years ago
The US population is characterized by significant racial/ethnic demographic transitions with an emerging number of special populations at risk for cardiovascular disease. Amongst the special populations with heart disease, it is heart failure in African-Americans that has become the prototypical model. Heart FailureÔÇöAn Enigmatic Disease in African-Americans Chronic heart failure is no longer… View more

Heart Failure
Managing Hyponatremia in Heart Failure
Author(s): William T Abraham Added: 3 years ago
Hyponatremia is the most common electrolytic abnormality in clinical practice and has a reported incidence of 15–30% in adults.1,2 It is particularly common in heart failure: the Organized Program to Initiate Life Saving Treatment in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF) registry recorded that 25.3% of 47,647 heart failure patients had hyponatremia on admission.3 In this registry,… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Erik B Friedrich , Michael Böhm Added: 3 years ago
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major public health problem in industrialized societies, with an incidence approaching 10 per 1,000 population after age 65 and an age-dependent prevalence of less than 1% between ages 45 and 55, 2-5% between ages 65 and 75, and approximately 10% for patients aged 80 years or more.1-3 Thus, HF is primarily a condition of the elderly, and approximately 80% of… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Gina G Mentzer , Alex J Auseon Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) affects more than 5 million people, representing 2 % of the population.1,2 At 40 years of age, the lifetime risk of developing HF, regardless of gender, is one in five, with an incidence of 10 per 1,000 population after the age of 65 years.1,3 Despite efforts focused toward primary prevention of HF in the areas of hypertension (HTN), diabetes, obesity, use of cardiotoxic… View more

Heart Failure

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Ernesto E Salcedo Added: 3 years ago
A working definition of Heart Failure (HF) was recently conceptualized by the Heart Failure Society of America as: "a syndrome caused by cardiac dysfunction, generally resulting from myocardial muscle dysfunction or loss and characterized by LV dilation or hypertrophy. Whether the dysfunction is primarily systolic or diastolic or mixed, it leads to neurohormonal and circulatory abnormalities,… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure