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Heart Failure Reviews
Published in: Heart Failure Reviews 2/2007

01-06-2007

An introduction to acute heart failure syndromes: definition and classification

Authors: Gerasimos Filippatos, Faiez Zannad

Published in: Heart Failure Reviews | Issue 2/2007

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Acute Heart Failure (AHF) is defined as a change in heart failure signs and symptoms resulting in the need for urgent therapy. Although AHF is associated with a poor prognosis only recently guidelines from Europe and USA [1, 2] have begun to address management of AHF syndromes (AHFS), and the clinical trial data supporting the recommendations are limited. Moreover, most of these clinical trials failed to show a decrease in mortality. A potential explanation is the heterogeneity of AHFS and the lack of a classification which could help design appropriate treatment algorithms. …
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Metadata
Title
An introduction to acute heart failure syndromes: definition and classification
Authors
Gerasimos Filippatos
Faiez Zannad
Publication date
01-06-2007
Published in
Heart Failure Reviews / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 1382-4147
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7322
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10741-007-9008-3

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