The Heart Failure Association Congress confirms itself as the largest European Society of Cardiology sub-speciality congress

The 2016 congress of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC has been held in Florence, Italy, from 21 to 24 May 2016. The congress has been a great success with an attendance of 6142 delegates and 277 faculties from 38 countries in 108 scientific programme sessions. The HFA congress has confirmed itself as the most important scientific event in the field and the HFA as the leading association worldwide. Nearly, 2010 abstracts had been submitted for the congress from all over the world corroborating the great interest in the scientific community for this congress. The HFA Congress hosted the release of the new HFA/ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure and these guidelines have been the key theme of the congress.1 Piotr Ponikowski led the task force that developed these guidelines together with Adriaan Voors. The guidelines have been developed following closely the ESC rules and regulations, which are designed to avoid biases and conflicts of interest. These guidelines have included new algorithms for the diagnosis of acute and chronic … [↵][1]*Corresponding author. Tel/Fax: +44 020 8742 8135, Email: giuseppe.rosano{at}gmail.com; grosano{at}sgul.ac.co.uk The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the Editors of the European Heart Journal or of the European Society of Cardiology. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1