• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Sex‐ and Age‐Related Differences in the Management and Outcomes of Chronic Heart Failure: an Analysis of Patients from the ESC HFA EORP Heart Failure Long‐Term Registry 

      Lainscak, Mitja; Milinković, Ivan; Polovina, Marija; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Lund, Lars H.; Anker, Stefan; Laroche, Cécile; Ferrari, Roberto; Coats, Andrew J.S.; McDonagh, Theresa A.; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Piepoli, Massimo Francesco; Rosano, Giuseppe; Ruschitzka, Frank; Simić, Dragan; Ašanin, Milika; Eicher, Jean‐Christophe; Yilmaz, Mehmet Birhan; Seferovic, Petar M. (Willey, 2019-12-20)
      [Abstract] Aims. This study aimed to assess age‐ and sex‐related differences in management and 1‐year risk for all‐cause mortality and hospitalization in chronic heart failure (HF) patients. Methods and results. Of ...