• 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 ...
    • Epidemiology and one‐year outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure and preserved, mid‐range and reduced ejection fraction: an analysis of the ESC Heart Failure Long‐Term Registry 

      Chioncel, Ovidiu; Lainscak, Mitja; Seferovic, Petar M.; Anker, Stefan; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Harjola, Veli-Pekka; Parissis, John; Laroche, Cecile; Piepoli, Massimo Francesco; Fonseca, Candida; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Lund, Lars H.; Ambrosio, Giuseppe A.; Coats, Andrew J.; Ferrari, Roberto; Ruschitzka, Frank; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Filippatos, Gerasimos (Wiley, 2017-04-06)
      [Abstract] AIMS: The objectives of the present study were to describe epidemiology and outcomes in ambulatory heart failure (HF) patients stratified by left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and to identify predictors ...
    • Inotropic therapy in patients with advanced heart failure: a clinical consensus statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology 

      Gustafsson, Finn; Damman, Kevin; Nalbantgil, Sanem; Van Laake, Linda W.; Tops, Laurens F.; Thum, Thomas; Adamopoulos, Stamatis; Bonios, Michael; Coats, Andrew J.S.; Crespo-Leiro, María Generosa; Mehra, Mandeep R.; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Hill, Loreena; Metra, Marco; Jankowska, Ewa; de Jonge, Nicolaas; Kaye, David; Masetti, Marco; Parissis, John; Milicic, Davor; Seferovic, Petar; Rosano, Giuseppe; Ben Gal, Tuvia (John Wiley & Sons, 2023-02-27)
      [Abstract] This clinical consensus statement reviews the use of inotropic support in patients with advanced heart failure. The current guidelines only support use of inotropes in the setting of acute decompensated heart ...
    • 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 ...