• A pragmatic approach to the use of inotropes for the management of acute and advanced heart failure: an expert panel consensus 

      Farmakis, Dimtrios; Agostoni, Piergiuseppe; Baholli, Loant; Bautin, Andrei; Comin-Colet, Josep; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Fedele, Francesco; García-Pinilla, José Manuel; Giannakoulas, George; Grigioni, Francesco; Gruchała, Marcin; Gustafsson, Finn; Harjola, Veli-Pekka; Hasin, Tal; Herpain, Antoine; Iliodromitis, Efstathios K.; Karason, Kristjan; Kivikko, Matti; Liaudet, Lucas; Ljubas-Maček, Jana; Marini, Marco; Masip, Josep; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Nikolaou, Maria; Ostadal, Petr; Põder, Pentti; Pollesello, Piero; Polyzogopoulou, Eftihia; Pölzl, Gerhard; Tschope, Carsten; Varpula, Marjut; Lewinski, Dirk von; Vrtovec, Bojan; Yilmaz, Mehmet Birhan; Zima, Endre; Parissis, John (Elsevier, 2019-12-15)
      [Abstract] Inotropes aim at increasing cardiac output by enhancing cardiac contractility. They constitute the third pharmacological pillar in the treatment of patients with decompensated heart failure, the other two being ...
    • Comprehensive in‐hospital monitoring in acute heart failure: applications for clinical practice and future directions for research. A statement from the Acute Heart Failure Committee of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 

      Harjola, Veli-Pekka; Parissis, John; Brunner-La Rocca, Hans-Peter; Celutkiené, Jelena; Chioncel, Ovidiu; Collins, Sean P.; De Backer, Daniel; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Gayat, Etienne; Hill, Loreena; Lainscak, Mitja; Lassus, Johan; Masip, Josep; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Miró, Óscar; Mortara, Andrea; Mueller, Christian; Mullens, Wilfried; Nieminen, Markku S.; Rudiger, Alain; Ruschitzka, Frank; Seferovic, Petar M.; Sionis, Alessandro; Vieillard-Baron, Antoine; Weinstein, Jean Marc; Boer, Rudolf de; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Piepoli, Massimo Francesco; Riley, Jillian P. (Wiley, 2018)
      [Abstract] This paper provides a practical clinical application of guideline recommendations relating to the inpatient monitoring of patients with acute heart failure, through the evaluation of various clinical, ...
    • Contemporary management of acute right ventricular failure: a statement from the Heart Failure Association and the Working Group on Pulmonary Circulation and Right Ventricular Function of the European Society of Cardiology 

      Harjola, Veli-Pekka; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Çelutkiené, Jelena; Bettex, Dominique; Bueno, Héctor; Chioncel, Ovidiu; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Falk, Volkmar; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Gibbs, Simon; Leite-Moreira, Adelino; Lassus, Johan; Masip, Josep; Mueller, Christian; Mullens, Wilfried; Naeije, Robert; Vonk Nordegraaf, Anton; Parissis, John; Riley, Jillian P.; Ristic, A.D.; Rosano, Giuseppe; Rudiger, Alain; Ruschitzka, Frank; Seferovic, Petar M.; Sztrymf, Benjamin; Vieillard-Baron, Antoine; Yilmaz, Mehmet Birhan; Konstantinides, Stavros (Wiley, 2016-03-15)
      [Abstract] Acute right ventricular (RV) failure is a complex clinical syndrome that results from many causes. Research efforts have disproportionately focused on the failing left ventricle, but recently the need has been ...
    • Levosimendan Efficacy and Safety: 20 Years of SIMDAX in Clinical Use 

      Papp, Zoltán; Álvarez, Julián; Bettex, Dominique; Bouchez, Stefan; Brito, Dulce; Černý, Vladimir; Comin-Colet; Comin-Colet, Josep; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Delgado-Jiménez, Juan F.; Édes, István; Eremenko, Alexander; Farmakis, Dimitrios; Fedele, Francesco; Fonseca, Candida; Fruhwald, Sonja; Girardis, Massimo; Guarracino, Fabio; Harjola, Veli-Pekka; Heringlake, Matthias; Herpain, Antoine; Heunks, Leo; Husebye, Tryggve; Ivancan, Višnja; Karason, Kristjan; Kaul, Sundeep; Kivikko, Matti; Kubica, Janek; Masip, Josep; Matskeplishvili, Simon; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Nieminen, Markku S.; Oliva, Fabrizio; Papp, Julius G.; Parissis, John; Parkhomenko, Alexander; Põder, Pentti; Pölzl, Gerhard; Reinecke, Alexander; Ricksten, Sven-Erik; Riha, Hynek; Rudiger, Alain; Sarapohja, Toni; Schwinger, Robert H. G.; Toller, Wolfgang; Tritapepe, Luigi; Tschöpe, Carsten; Wikström, Gerhard; Lewinski, Dirk von; Vrtovec, Bojan; Pollesello, Piero; Agostoni, Piergiuseppe (Wolters Kluwer, 2020-07)
      [Abstract] Levosimendan was first approved for clinical use in 2000, when authorization was granted by Swedish regulatory authorities for the hemodynamic stabilization of patients with acutely decompensated chronic heart ...