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HFSA 2006 Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guidelines
Executive Summary: Journal of Cardiac Failure 2006; 12:10-38
Access the heart failure guidelines www.heartfailureguideline.org.
These new guidelines are divided into 16 sections:
- Section 1: Development and Implementation of a Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline
- Section 2: Conceptualization and Working Definition of Heart Failure
- Section 3: Prevention of Ventricular Remodeling, Cardiac Dysfunction, and Heart Failure
- Section 4: Evaluation of Patients for Ventricular Dysfunction and Heart Failure
- Section 5: Management of Asymptomatic Patients with Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
- Section 6: Nonpharmacological Management and Health Care Maintenance of Patients with Chronic Heart Failure
- Section 7: Heart Failure in Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction
- Section 8: Disease Management in Heart Failure
- Section 9: Electrophysiologic Testing and Use of Devices in Heart Failure
- Section 10: Surgical Approaches to the Treatment of Heart Failure
- Section 11: Evaluation and Management of Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
- Section 12: Evaluation and Management of Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
- Section 13: Evaluation and Therapy for Heart Failure in the Setting of Ischemic Heart Disease
- Section 14: Managing Patients with Hypertension and Heart Failure
- Section 15: Management of Heart Failure in Special Populations
- Section 16: Myocarditis: Current Treatment
How to Receive Notification of Updates
The 2006 comprehensive heart failure guideline will be a living document. If you would like to receive an e-mail notification when there are:
- Updates to the guidelines
- Powerpoint slides available

