Consensus Expert panel revises definition, classification and staging of cardiac failure
A new updated statement put forward collectively by the HFSA, the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, and the Japanese Heart Failure Society, with endorsements from the Canadian Heart Failure Society, the Heart Failure Association of India, the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the Chinese Heart Failure Association has made major revisions in defining heart failure and the way in which the disease is staged and classified.The revised statement has been put forth in the Journal Of Cardiac Failure.
A universal definition of HF is of critical importance to clinicians, investigators, administrators, health care services, institutions, legislators, and payers alike. The increasing prevalence and burden of HF, an increased recognition of growing health care disparities,and deficiencies in the optimal treatment in HF with guideline-directed management and therapy (GDMT) strategies all underline the necessity for a universally recognizable definition of HF.To fill this gap, the team, a writing committee consisting of 37 individuals with domain expertise in HF, cardiomyopathy, and cardiovascular disease, took upon itself the task to provide a universal definition of HF that is clinically relevant, simple but conceptually comprehensive, with the ability to subclassify and to encompass stages within; with universal applicability globally, and with prognostic and therapeutic validity and acceptable sensitivity and specificity.
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