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Worsening of chronic heart failure: definition, epidemiology, management and prevention. A clinical consensus statement by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

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Summary: This review examined the most promising emerging biomarkers for the clinical assessment and management of patients with heart failure, including high-sensitivity cardiac troponins, procalcitonin, novel kidney markers, sST2, galectin-3, GDF-15, CD146, neprilysin, and ADM. Analytical considerations, diagnostic and prognostic performance, potential implementation in clinical algorithms, and ongoing clinical trials were discussed for each biomarker.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2021)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Impact of mitral regurgitation in patients with worsening heart failure: insights from BIOSTAT-CHF

Matteo Pagnesi et al.

Summary: The study found that moderate-severe mitral regurgitation is common in patients with worsening chronic or new-onset acute heart failure and is strongly associated with outcome, independently of other features related to heart failure severity.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2021)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Antigen carbohydrate 125 as a biomarker in heart failure: a narrative review

Julio Nunez et al.

Summary: CA125 is a reliable marker for congestion and inflammation in heart failure patients, strongly associated with a higher risk of adverse clinical events and potential for guiding decongestive therapy following acute heart failure events. Further research is needed to better understand its biological role and utility in clinical practice.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2021)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Prognostic Importance of NT-proBNP and Effect of Empagliflozin in the EMPEROR-Reduced Trial

Jr James L. Januzzi et al.

Summary: This study found that empagliflozin treatment reduced the risk of heart failure or renal events regardless of baseline NT-proBNP concentration in patients with heart failure.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2021)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Haemodynamic-guided management of heart failure (GUIDE-HF): a randomised controlled trial

JoAnn Lindenfeld et al.

Summary: The study aimed to evaluate whether haemodynamic-guided management of heart failure is applicable to patients with different severity of symptoms (NYHA functional class II-IV). The overall study analysis showed that haemodynamic-guided management did not reduce the mortality rate and heart failure events in heart failure patients. However, a pre-COVID-19 impact analysis suggested a potential benefit of haemodynamic-guided management for heart failure patients, primarily by lowering the heart failure hospitalisation rate.

LANCET (2021)

Editorial Material Medicine, General & Internal

To master heart failure, first master congestion

John G. F. Cleland et al.

LANCET (2021)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Clinical Outcomes and Response to Vericiguat According to Index Heart Failure Event Insights From the VICTORIA Trial

Carolyn S. P. Lam et al.

Summary: This study analyzed patients at different time periods after heart failure hospitalization and found that patients closer to their index heart failure event had a higher risk of cardiovascular death or recurrent heart failure. Vericiguat reduced the risk of the primary outcome in all subgroups and showed a trend of greater benefit with longer time since the heart failure event.

JAMA CARDIOLOGY (2021)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

The effect of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose on heatlh-related quality of life in iron-deficient patients with acute heart failure: the results of the AFFIRM-AHF study

Ewa A. Jankowska et al.

Summary: Patients with heart failure and iron deficiency experience poor health-related quality of life. Treatment with intravenous ferric carboxymaltose results in clinically beneficial effects on HRQoL as early as 4 weeks after treatment initiation, lasting up to 24 weeks.

EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL (2021)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure

Biykem Bozkurt et al.

Summary: This document proposes a universal definition, revised stages, and new classification of heart failure based on left ventricular ejection fraction. The classification includes HF with reduced, mildly reduced, preserved, and improved ejection fraction, each with specific LVEF thresholds.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2021)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Analysis of Worsening Heart Failure Events in an Integrated Health Care System br

Andrew P. Ambrosy et al.

Summary: The study found that the incidence of worsening heart failure events has been increasing over the past decade, with outpatient encounters and emergency department visits/observation stays accounting for approximately half of the events and driving the overall growth in heart failure morbidity, indicating a poor short-term prognosis for patients.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2021)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

The effect of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose on health-related quality of life in iron-deficient patients with acute heart failure: the results of the AFFIRM-AHF study

Ewa A. Jankowska et al.

Summary: The study showed that in iron-deficient patients who had stabilized after an episode of acute heart failure, treatment with IV FCM resulted in significant beneficial effects on HRQoL, lasting up to 24 weeks.

EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL (2021)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Early Effects of Starting Doses of Enalapril in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure in the SOLVD Treatment Trial

Phillip H. Lam et al.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2020)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

CA125-Guided Diuretic Treatment Versus Usual Care in Patients With Acute Heart Failure and Renal Dysfunction

Julio Nunez et al.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2020)

Letter Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Ambulatory Treatment of Worsening Heart Failure With Intravenous Loop Diuretics: A Four-Year Experience

Leo F. Buckley et al.

JOURNAL OF CARDIAC FAILURE (2020)

Editorial Material Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Comparing the Benefit of Novel Therapies Across Clinical Trials Insights From the VICTORIA Trial

Javed Butler et al.

CIRCULATION (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Effects of dapagliflozin in DAPA-HF according to background heart failure therapy

Kieran F. Docherty et al.

EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Readmission and death in patients admitted with new-onset versus worsening of chronic heart failure: insights from a nationwide cohort

Jawad H. Butt et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Telemonitoring versus standard care in heart failure: a randomised multicentre trial

Michel Galinier et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2020)

Letter Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Decreases in acute heart failure hospitalizations duringCOVID-19

Zachary L. Cox et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2020)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Acute heart failure: More questions than answers

Daniela Tomasoni et al.

PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Clinical Role of CA125 in Worsening Heart Failure A BIOSTAT-CHF Study Subanalysis

Julio Nunez et al.

JACC-HEART FAILURE (2020)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Vericiguat in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction

Paul W. Armstrong et al.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2020)

Letter Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Implications of serial measurements of natriuretic peptides in heart failure: insights from BIOSTAT-CHF

Muhammad Zubair Israr et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Reduced rate of hospital presentations for heart failure during the Covid-19 pandemic in Toronto, Canada

Claudia Frankfurter et al.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

One-Year Mortality After Intensification of Outpatient Diuretic Therapy

Christian Madelaire et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Temporal trends in decompensated heart failure and outcomes duringCOVID-19: a multisite report from heart failure referral centres inLondon

Antonio Cannata et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

In-hospital care in acute heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the German-wide Helios hospital network

Sebastian Koenig et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2020)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Prevalence, pattern and clinical relevance of ultrasound indices of congestion in outpatients with heart failure

Pierpaolo Pellicori et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2019)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Bio-adrenomedullin as a marker of congestion in patients with new-onset and worsening heart failure

Jozine M. ter Maaten et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2019)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Clinical Course of Patients With Worsening Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Javed Butler et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2019)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Exercise Intolerance in Patients With Heart Failure

Marco Giuseppe Del Buono et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2019)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology practical guidance on the use of natriuretic peptide concentrations

Christian Mueller et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2019)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

20-year trends in cause-specific heart failure outcomes by sex, socioeconomic status, and place of diagnosis: a population-based study

Claire A. Lawson et al.

LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH (2019)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Heart failure in the outpatient versus inpatient setting: findings from the BIOSTAT-CHF study

Joao Pedro Ferreira et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2019)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Angiotensin-Neprilysin Inhibition in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Eric J. Velazquez et al.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2019)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Acutely decompensated heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction present with comparable haemodynamic congestion

Lucas N. L. Van Aelst et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2018)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Advanced heart failure: a position statement of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Maria G. Crespo-Leiro et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2018)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Integrative Assessment of Congestion in Heart Failure Throughout the Patient Journey

Nicolas Girerd et al.

JACC-HEART FAILURE (2018)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Outpatient Worsening Heart Failure as a Target for Therapy A Review

Stephen J. Greene et al.

JAMA CARDIOLOGY (2018)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Splanchnic nerve block for decompensated chronic heart failure: splanchnic-HF

Marat Fudim et al.

EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL (2018)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

sST2 Predicts Outcome in Chronic Heart Failure Beyond N-proBNP and High-Sensitivity Troponin T

Michele Emdin et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2018)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Left ventricular assist device therapy in advanced heart failure: patient selection and outcomes

Finn Gustafsson et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2017)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Time-to-Furosemide Treatment and Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure

Yuya Matsue et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2017)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Acute Heart Failure Alternatives to Hospitalization

Reka Zsilinszka et al.

JACC-HEART FAILURE (2017)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Meta-Analysis of Soluble Suppression of Tumorigenicity-2 and Prognosis in Acute Heart Failure

Alberto Aimo et al.

JACC-HEART FAILURE (2017)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Pathophysiology and clinical evaluation of acute heart failure

Robert J. Mentz et al.

NATURE REVIEWS CARDIOLOGY (2016)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Detection and prognostic value of pulmonary congestion by lung ultrasound in ambulatory heart failure patients

Elke Platz et al.

EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL (2016)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Interventions Linked to Decreased Heart Failure Hospitalizations During Ambulatory Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring

Maria R. Costanzo et al.

JACC-HEART FAILURE (2016)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

A simple validated method for predicting the risk of hospitalization for worsening of heart failure in ambulatory patients: the Redin-SCORE

Jesus Alvarez-Garcia et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2015)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

In-hospital worsening heart failure

Javed Butler et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2015)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Emergency department visits for heart failure and subsequent hospitalization or observation unit admission

Saul Blecker et al.

AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL (2014)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Prognosis and response to therapy of first inpatient and outpatient heart failure event in a heart failure clinical trial: MADIT-CRT

Hicham Skali et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE (2014)

Editorial Material Medicine, General & Internal

Recognizing Worsening Chronic Heart Failure as an Entity and an End Point in Clinical Trials

Javed Butler et al.

JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2014)

Review Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

The Global Health and Economic Burden of Hospitalizations for Heart Failure Lessons Learned From Hospitalized Heart Failure Registries

Andrew P. Ambrosy et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2014)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Angiotensin-Neprilysin Inhibition versus Enalapril in Heart Failure

John J. V. McMurray et al.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2014)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

The Burden of Acute Heart Failure on U.S. Emergency Departments

Alan B. Storrow et al.

JACC-HEART FAILURE (2014)

Editorial Material Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Is Hospital Admission for Heart Failure Really Necessary? The Role of the Emergency Department and Observation Unit in Preventing Hospitalization and Rehospitalization

Sean P. Collins et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY (2013)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Intrathoracic Impedance Monitoring, Audible Patient Alerts, and Outcome in Patients With Heart Failure

Dirk J. van Veldhuisen et al.

CIRCULATION (2011)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Clinical outcomes for continuous-flow left ventricular assist device patients stratified by pre-operative INTERMACS classification

Andrew J. Boyle et al.

JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION (2011)

Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Patterns of weight change preceding hospitalization for heart failure

Sarwat I. Chaudhry et al.

CIRCULATION (2007)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Effects of initiating carvedilol in patients with severe chronic heart failure - Results from the COPERNICUS study

H Krum et al.

JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2003)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

A randomized trial of the angiotensin-receptor blocker valsartan in chronic heart failure

JN Cohn et al.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2001)