ESC GUIDELINES
2016ESCGuidelinesforthediagnosisand
treatmentofacuteandchronicheartfailure
The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic
heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure
Association (HFA) of the ESC
Authors/Task Force Members: Piotr Ponikowski*(Chairperson) (Poland),
Adriaan A. Voors*(Co-Chairperson) (The Netherlands), Stefan D. Anker (Germany),
He´ctor Bueno (Spain), John G. F. Cleland (UK), Andrew J. S. Coats (UK),
Volkmar Falk (Germany), Jose´Ramo´n Gonza´lez-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)
Document Reviewers: Gerasimos Filippatos (CPG Review Coordinator) (Greece), John J. V. McMurray (CPG Review
Coordinator) (UK), Victor Aboyans (France), Stephan Achenbach (Germany), Stefan Agewall (Norway),
Nawwar Al-Attar (UK), John James Atherton (Australia), Johann Bauersachs (Germany), A. John Camm (UK),
Scipione Carerj (Italy), Claudio Ceconi (Italy), Antonio Coca (Spain), Perry Elliott (UK), Çetin Erol (Turkey),
Justin Ezekowitz (Canada), Covadonga Ferna´ndez-Golfı´n (Spain), Donna Fitzsimons (UK), Marco Guazzi (Italy),
*Corresponding authors: Piotr Ponikowski, Department of Heart Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University, Centre for Heart Diseases, Military Hospital, ul. Weigla 5, 50−981 Wroclaw,
Poland, Tel:+48 261 660 279, Tel/Fax:+48 261 660 237, E−mail:piotrponikowski@4wsk.pl.
Adriaan Voors, Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands, Tel:+31 50 3612355,
Fax:+31 50 3614391, E−mail:a.a.voors@umcg.nl.
ESC Committee for Practi
Ponikowski_et_al-2016-European_Journal_of_Heart_Failure.pdf