Clinical Diagnosis In Heart Failure

Abstract

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.

Study protocol: systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of pharmacist intervention on health related quality of life and clinical outcomes among patients with heart failure

“…Heart failure (HF) is a cardiac structural and/or functional abnormality leading to failure of the heart to deliver oxygen at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues [1]. Diagnosis of HF is con rmed based on clinical history, physical examination (Framingham criteria), chest X-ray and echocardiography ndings and laboratory exams speci cally plasma B-type Natriuretic Peptide and Nterminal B-type Natriuretic Peptide measurement [2,3]. Clinical outcomes among patients with HF were mortality (all-cause and HF speci c death), hospitalization, readmission and morbidity endpoints used in different trials and taken as de nition by the European Society of Cardiology HF association consensus document [4].…”