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ESC Guidelines for Heart Failure

What patients need to know

This guide for patients from the European Society of Cardiology aims to provide an overview of the latest evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure.

In particular, it should help patients to understand the:

main types of heart failure
medicines used to treat heart failure
devices that may be appropriate
importance of rehabilitation
management by a multidisciplinary team
importance of self-care in managing your own condition

Learn more

Download the Guidelines

AN ANIMATED JOURNEY THROUGH HEART FAILURE

A series of 9 simple, captivating animations explaining heart failure and its treatment.

These narrated animations explain how a healthy heart works, what happens to it in heart failure and how various treatments work to improve your health.

How the normal heart works

What goes wrong in heart failure

How the heart and body compensate in heart failure

How heart failure causes fluid accumulation

How a heart attack can cause heart failure

How abnormal heart valves can cause heart failure

How vasodilators work in heart failure

How diuretics work in heart failure

How medical devices work in heart failure

USEFUL TOOLS

Click to print these tools to help you monitor your heart failure

PATIENT AND CAREGIVERS VIDEOS

In this section you can watch, listen or read interviews with other people with heart failure and their caregivers.

Living well with heart failure in Ireland

What strategy did you use to understand Heart failure and how to live with it?

What is self-care? And what can you do to improve your daily basis with heart failure?

Patient in exercise training

What would you like to say to healthcare professionals about the importance of quality of life?

How the ESC Patients Guidelines can improve decision making?

How did your role as patient representative helped you with your diagnosis?

Patient with an ICD

Adjusting lifestyle and staying optimistic

Living with heart failure devices

Living with an LVAD

How to manage heart disease and pregnancy

What is heart failure in congenital heart disease?

What can patients do to live better with heart failure and congenital heart disease?

What treatments are available for people with heart failure and congenital heart disease?

An LVAD as a bridge to transplantation

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heartfailurematters.org is a European Society of Cardiology website

The heartfailurematters.org website was developed under the direction of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The ESC is a world leader in the discovery and dissemination of best practices in cardiovascular medicine. Our members and decision-makers are healthcare professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to represent professionals in the field of cardiology in Europe and beyond.

The HFA is part of the European Society of Cardiology, a nonprofit Association established under French Law of 1901 and is dedicated to heart failure patient management and increasing the awareness of heart failure as a global health problem.

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