Key result
Review summarizes evidence-based diagnostic pathways for acute and non-acute heart failure.
Why the study?
The 2016 ESC heart failure guidelines provided updated evidence-based recommendations for the clinical diagnosis of heart failure requiring summarization and dissemination.
May aid application of 2016 ESC HF diagnostics; leaves open integration of post-2016 evidence and guideline updates.
A contemporary review of the diagnosis of heart failure as part of a special heart failure issue. The 2016 ESC heart failure guidelines have provided updated evidence-based recommendations for the clinical diagnosis of heart failure. This article summarises the diagnostic process in the case of a patient presenting with acute dyspnoea and suspected acute heart failure, and summarises the diagnostic elements that should be assessed in a patient with non-acute onset. The role of clinical and laboratory testing is discussed.
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Spoletini et al. (2017) conducted a review in Heart failure. Clinical diagnosis was evaluated. This contemporary review summarizes the evidence-based diagnostic process for acute and non-acute heart failure based on the 2016 ESC guidelines.
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