Vnitr Lek 2022, 68(2):104-110 | DOI: 10.36290/vnl.2022.020
What do the new ESC Guidelines for the treatment of heart failure bring to internists?
- I. interní kardioangiologická klinika FN USA a LF MU, Brno
Chronic heart failure is in european countries in 0,4-2,0% population with an increase with age. The improved care of acute cases enables to decrease the number of patients with chronic heart failure.The disease has a bad prognosis, the diagnosis therapy are demanding. European guidelines for diagnosis and treatment heart failure stress, that patients should have all 4 drugs with class 1 reccomendation (ACE‑I/ARNI, betablockers, MRA and SGLT2) in reccomended doses. These drugs will be given step by step with dose titration.
Keywords: chronic heart failure, diagnosis, treatment.
Published: April 4, 2022 Show citation
References
- McDonagh TA, Metra M, Adamo M, et al. 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure. European heart journal. 2021;00:1-128. doi: 101093/eurheartj/ehab 368.
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