• 2023 Focused Update of the 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 

      McDonagh, Theresa A.; Metra, Marco; Adamo, Marianna; Gardner, Roy S.; Baumbach, Andreas; Böhm, Michael; Burri, Haram; Butler, Javed; Čelutkienė, Jelena; Chioncel, Ovidiu; Cleland, John G.F.; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Farmakis, Dimitrios; Gilard, Martine; Heymans, Stephane; Hoes, Arno W.; Jaarsma, Tiny; Jankowska, Ewa A.; Lainscak, Mitja; Lam, Carolyn S.P.; Lyon, Alexander R.; McMurray, John J.V.; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Mindham, Richard; Muneretto, Claudio; Piepoli, Massimo Francesco; Price, Susanna; Rosano, Giuseppe M.C.; Ruschitzka, Frank; Skibelund, Anne Kathrine (Oxford Academic, 2023-10-01)
    • 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 ...
    • Acute heart failure congestion and perfusion status – impact of the clinical classification on in-hospital and long-term outcomes; insights from the ESC-EORP-HFA Heart Failure Long-Term Registry 

      Chioncel, Ovidiu; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Harjola, Veli-Pekka; Rosano, Giuseppe; Laroche, Cecile; Piepoli, Massimo Francesco; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Lainscak, Mitja; Ponikowski, Piotr; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Ruschitzka, Frank; Seferovic, Petar; Coats, Andrew J.S.; Lund, Lars H. (Wiley, 2019-05-24)
      [Abstract] Aims: Classification of acute heart failure (AHF) patients into four clinical profiles defined by evidence of congestion and perfusion is advocated by the 2016 European Society of Cardiology (ESC)guidelines. ...
    • Brachial pulse pressure in acute heart failure. Results of the Heart Failure Registry 

      Bonapace, Stefano; Rossi, Andrea; Laroche, Cécile; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Piepoli, Massimo F.; Coats, Andrew J. S.; Dahlström, Ulf; Malek, Filip; Macarie, Cezar; Temporelli, Pier Luigi; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Tavazzi, Luigi (Willey Online Library, 2019-12-09)
      [Abstract] Aims To investigate the still uncertain independent prognostic impact of pulse pressure (PP) in acute heart failure (HF), in particular across the left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) phenotypes, and the ...
    • Current management of patients with severe acute peripartum cardiomyopathy: practical guidance from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Study Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy 

      Bauersachs, Johann; Arrigo, Mattia; Hilfiker-Kleiner, Denise; Veltmann, Christian; Coats, Andrew J.S.; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; De Boer, Rudolf A.; van der Meer, Peter; Maack, Christoph; Mouquet, Frederic; Petrie, Mark C.; Piepoli, Massimo Francesco; Regitz-Zagrosek, Vera; Schaufelberger, Maria; Seferovic, Petar M.; Tavazzi, Luigi; Ruschitzka, Frank; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Sliwa, Karen (Wiley, 2016-06-23)
    • Hyponatraemia and changes in natraemia during hospitalization for acute heart failure and associations with in-hospital and long-term outcomes – from the ESC-HFA EORP Heart Failure Long-Term Registry 

      Kaplon-Cieslicka, Agnieszka; Benson, Lina; Chioncel, Ovidiu; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Coats, Andrew J.S.; Anker, Stefan; Ruschitzka, Frank; Hage, Camilla; Drozdz, Jaroslaw; Seferovic, Petar; Rosano, Giuseppe; Piepoli, Massimo; Mebazaa, Alexandre; McDonagh, Theresa; Lainscak, Mitja; Savarese, Gianluigi; Ferrari, Roberto; Mullens, Wilfried; Bayes-Genis, Antoni; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Lund, Lars H. (European Society of Cardiology, 2023-04-27)
      [Abstract] Aims: To comprehensively assess hyponatraemia in acute heart failure (AHF) regarding prevalence, associations, hospital course, and post-discharge outcomes. Methods and results: Of 8298 patients in the European ...
    • In‐hospital and 1‐year mortality associated with diabetes in patients with acute heart failure: results from the ESC‐HFA Heart Failure Long‐Term Registry 

      Targher, Giovanni; Dauriz, Marco; Laroche, Cecile; Temporelli, Pier Luigi; Hassanein, Mahmoud; Seferovic, Petar M.; Drozdz, Jaroslaw; Ferrari, Roberto; Anker, Stefan; Coats, Andrew; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Piepoli, Massimo F.; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Tavazzi, Luigi (Wiley, 2016-10-28)
      [Abstract] AIMS: The aim of this study was to evaluate the in-hospital and 1-year prognostic impact of diabetes and elevated blood glucose levels at hospital admission in patients with acute heart failure (HF). METHODS ...
    • 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 ...
    • Prognostic value of discharge heart rate in acute heart failure patients: more relevant in atrial fibrillation? 

      Agra Bermejo, Rosa; Pascual Figal, Domingo A.; Gude Sampedro, Francisco; Delgado-Jiménez, Juan F.; Vidal-Pérez, Rafael Carlos; Gómez Otero, Inés; Ferrero-Gregori, Andreu; Álvarez-García, Jesús; Worner Diz, Fernando; Segovia, Jesús; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Cinca Cuscullola, Juan; Fernández-Avilés, Francisco; González-Juanatey, J.R. (Elsevier, 2020-02)
      [Abstract] Aims. The prognostic impact of heart rate (HR) in acute heart failure (AHF) patients is not well known especially in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of admission ...