This article updates the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
2007 classification of advanced heart failure and describes new diagnostic and treatment …

… heart failure. Patients may move between stages/classes in either direction but the natural
history of heart failure is … Stage A = “at high risk of HF but without structural heart disease or …

… of hospitalizations for heart failure, its use as an endpoint in heart failure trials must take
into account some limitations. The decision to hospitalize a patient with heart failure is often …

Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of heart muscle diseases and an important
cause of heart failure (HF). Current knowledge on incidence, pathophysiology and natural …

… is practised in some centres of excellence but it is probably not achievable in most European
centres. Heart failure clinics are a key element in the multiprofessional models of HF care in …

… European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has published a series of guidelines on heart failure
(… that has become available since then, the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC …

… of chronic heart failure IMprove heart fAilure morbidity and mortality?; RR, risk ratio; SIGNAL-HF,
Swedish Intervention study-Guidelines and NT-proBNP AnaLysis in Heart Failure; TIME-…

… This executive document reflects the key points of a meeting organised by the Heart Failure
Association (HFA) of the ESC on the topic ‘Frailty in heart failure’. Aims of this meeting were: (…

of Key Points In this document, we propose a universal definition of heart failure (HF) as the
following: HF is a clinical syndrome with symptoms and or signs caused by a structural and/…

… Integrating palliative care into evidence‐based heart failure … of care fluctuate along the
heart failure disease trajectory. The … for the chronic, crisis and terminal phases of heart failure. …