European Journal of Heart Failure, the journal of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the field of heart failure management.

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Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in severe mitral regurgitation following acute myocardial infarction – aetiology-based analysis

Clinical management and therapeutic optimization of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and low blood pressure. A clinical consensus statement of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC

Hypertensive pregnancy disorder, an under-recognized women specific risk factor for heart failure?

Characterizing atrial fibrillation in patients with and without heart failure across the ejection fraction spectrum: Incidence, prevalence, and treatment strategies

Effect of correcting iron deficiency on the risk of serious infection in heart failure: Insights from the IRONMAN trial

Articles

Research Letter

Acute haemodynamic changes following transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement

Domenico Angellotti, Joanna Bartkowiak, Daryoush Samim, Lukas Hunziker, Nicolas Brugger, Stephan Windecker, Fabien Praz, 
  •  21 July 2025
Position Paper

Prevention of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction and heart failure in cancer patients and survivors. A Clinical Consensus Statement of the Heart Failure Association, the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the ESC, and the ESC Council of Cardio-Oncology

Amina Rakisheva, Dimitrios Farmakis, Andrea Attanasio, Antoni Bayes Genis, Alain Cohen-Solal, Geeta Gulati, Martin Halle, Loreena Hill, Teresa Lopez Fernandez, Alexander R. Lyon, Brenda Moura, Ciro Santoro, Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti, Sophie van Linthout, Vassilios Vassiliou, Yusuf Ziya Sener, Makhabbat Bekbosynova, Marco Metra, Giuseppe Rosano, Massimo Piepoli, 
  •  18 July 2025

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Prevention of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction and heart failure in cancer patients and survivors. A Clinical Consensus Statement of the Heart Failure Association, the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the ESC, and the ESC Council of Cardio-Oncology Issue ,

Prevention of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction and heart failure in cancer patients and survivors. CTR-CVT, cancer therapy-related cardiovascular toxicity; CVD, cardiovascular disease; CVRF, cardiovascular risk factor; ECG, electrocardiogram; TTE, transthoracic echocardiography.

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Heart failure hospitalizations and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair: Insights from EuroTR

Daniela Tomasoni, Marianna Adamo, Jörg Hausleiter, Elisa Pezzola, Karl-Patrik Kresoja, Jennifer von Stein, Vera Fortmeier, Christoph Pauschinger, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Mohammad Kassar, Bjoern Goebel, Paolo Denti, Paul Achouh, Tienush Rassaf, Manuel Barreiro-Perez, Peter Boekstegers, Andreas Rück, Monika Zdanyte, Flavien Vincent, Philipp Schlegel, Ralph-Stephan von Bardeleben, Mirjam G. Wild, Christian Besler, Stephanie Brunner, Stefan Toggweiler, Julia Grapsa, Tiffany Patterson, Holger Thiele, Tobias Kister, Giuseppe Tarantini, Giulia Masiero, Marco De Carlo, Alessandro Sticchi, Mathias H. Konstandin, Eric Van Belle, Tobias Geisler, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro, Peter Luedike, Nicole Karam, Francesco Maisano, Philipp Lauten, Fabien Praz, Mirjam Kessler, Daniel Kalbacher, Volker Rudolph, Christos Iliadis, Philipp Lurz, Lukas Stolz, Marco Metra, the EuroTR Investigators, 
  •  18 July 2025

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Heart failure hospitalizations and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair: Insights from EuroTR Issue ,

Heart failure hospitalization before and after tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. CI, confidence interval; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; EuroTR Registry, European Registry of Transcatheter Repair for Tricuspid Regurgitation; GGT, gamma-glutamyl transferase; Hb, haemoglobin; HFH, heart failure hospitalization; HR, hazard ratio; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; NYHA, New York Heart Association; OR, odds ratio; RR, risk ratio; TAPSE, tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion; TR, tricuspid regurgitation; T-TEER, tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. *RR was calculated after the exclusion of patients who died during the 1 year after T-TEER and of patients without at least 1-year follow-up.

Research Article

Changes in cardiac structure and function are associated with health-related quality of life in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction: Results from the EVALUATE-HF trial

Sahmin Lee, Brian L. Claggett, James C. Fang, Gary F. Mitchell, Jonathan H. Ward, Scott D. Solomon, Hicham Skali, Akshay S. Desai, Sheila M. Hegde, 
  •  18 July 2025

Graphical Abstract

Changes in cardiac structure and function are associated with health-related quality of life in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction: Results from the EVALUATE-HF trial Issue ,

Echocardiographic changes associated with health-related quality of life in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) patients. GLS, absolute global longitudinal strain; KCCQ, Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire; LAVI, left atrial volume index; LV, left ventricular; S-V, sacubitril-valsartan.

Correspondence

Reply to the letter regarding the article ‘Employment of artificial intelligence for an unbiased evaluation regarding the recovery of right ventricular function after mitral valve transcatheter edge‐to‐edge repair’

Vera Fortmeier, Márton Tokodi, Mark Lachmann, 
  •  18 July 2025

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The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.

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2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

Authors/Task Force Members:, Theresa A. McDonagh, Marco Metra, Marianna Adamo, Roy S. Gardner, Andreas Baumbach, Michael Böhm, Haran Burri, Javed Butler, Jelena Čelutkienė, Ovidiu Chioncel, John G.F. Cleland, Andrew J.S. Coats, Maria G. Crespo-Leiro, Dimitrios Farmakis, Martine Gilard, Stephane Heymans, Arno W. Hoes, Tiny Jaarsma, Ewa A. Jankowska, Mitja Lainscak, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Alexander R. Lyon, John J.V. McMurray, Alexandre Mebazaa, Richard Mindham, Claudio Muneretto, Massimo Francesco Piepoli, Susanna Price, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Frank Ruschitzka, Anne Kathrine Skibelund, ESC Scientific Document Group, 
  •  4-131
  •  27 January 2022
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Epidemiology of heart failure

Amy Groenewegen, Frans H. Rutten, Arend Mosterd, Arno W. Hoes, 
  •  1342-1356
  •  1 June 2020
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2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

Piotr Ponikowski (Chairperson) (Poland), Adriaan A. Voors (Co-Chairperson) (The Netherlands), Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Héctor Bueno (Spain), John G. F. Cleland (UK), Andrew J. S. Coats (UK), Volkmar Falk (Germany), José Ramón González-Juanatey (Spain), Veli-Pekka Harjola (Finland), Ewa A. Jankowska (Poland), Mariell Jessup (USA), Cecilia Linde (Sweden), Petros Nihoyannopoulos (UK), John T. Parissis (Greece), Burkert Pieske (Germany), Jillian P. Riley (UK), Giuseppe M. C. Rosano (UK/Italy), Luis M. Ruilope (Spain), Frank Ruschitzka (Switzerland), Frans H. Rutten (The Netherlands), Peter van der Meer (The Netherlands), Authors/Task Force Members, Document Reviewers, 
  •  891-975
  •  20 May 2016
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Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure

Biykem Bozkurt, Andrew J.S. Coats, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Ca Magdy Abdelhamid, Stamatis Adamopoulos, Nancy Albert, Stefan D. Anker, John Atherton, Michael Böhm, Javed Butler, Mark H. Drazner, G. Michael Felker, Gerasimos Filippatos, Mona Fiuzat, Gregg C. Fonarow, Juan-Esteban Gomez-Mesa, Paul Heidenreich, Teruhiko Imamura, Ewa A. Jankowska, James Januzzi, Prateeti Khazanie, Koichiro Kinugawa, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Yuya Matsue, Marco Metra, Tomohito Ohtani, Massimo Francesco Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Yasushi Sakata, Petar Seferović, Randall C. Starling, John R. Teerlink, Orly Vardeny, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Clyde Yancy, Jian Zhang, Shelley Zieroth, 
  •  352-380
  •  19 February 2021
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The use of diuretics in heart failure with congestion — a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Wilfried Mullens, Kevin Damman, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Alexandre Mebazaa, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca, Pieter Martens, Jeffrey M. Testani, W.H. Wilson Tang, Francesco Orso, Patrick Rossignol, Marco Metra, Gerasimos Filippatos, Petar M. Seferovic, Frank Ruschitzka, Andrew J. Coats, 
  •  137-155
  •  1 January 2019
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free access

2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

Authors/Task Force Members:, Theresa A. McDonagh, Marco Metra, Marianna Adamo, Roy S. Gardner, Andreas Baumbach, Michael Böhm, Haran Burri, Javed Butler, Jelena Čelutkienė, Ovidiu Chioncel, John G.F. Cleland, Andrew J.S. Coats, Maria G. Crespo-Leiro, Dimitrios Farmakis, Martine Gilard, Stephane Heymans, Arno W. Hoes, Tiny Jaarsma, Ewa A. Jankowska, Mitja Lainscak, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Alexander R. Lyon, John J.V. McMurray, Alexandre Mebazaa, Richard Mindham, Claudio Muneretto, Massimo Francesco Piepoli, Susanna Price, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Frank Ruschitzka, Anne Kathrine Skibelund, ESC Scientific Document Group, 
Open access

Epidemiology of heart failure

Amy Groenewegen, Frans H. Rutten, Arend Mosterd, Arno W. Hoes, 
free access

2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

Piotr Ponikowski (Chairperson) (Poland), Adriaan A. Voors (Co-Chairperson) (The Netherlands), Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Héctor Bueno (Spain), John G. F. Cleland (UK), Andrew J. S. Coats (UK), Volkmar Falk (Germany), José Ramón González-Juanatey (Spain), Veli-Pekka Harjola (Finland), Ewa A. Jankowska (Poland), Mariell Jessup (USA), Cecilia Linde (Sweden), Petros Nihoyannopoulos (UK), John T. Parissis (Greece), Burkert Pieske (Germany), Jillian P. Riley (UK), Giuseppe M. C. Rosano (UK/Italy), Luis M. Ruilope (Spain), Frank Ruschitzka (Switzerland), Frans H. Rutten (The Netherlands), Peter van der Meer (The Netherlands), Authors/Task Force Members, Document Reviewers, 
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