Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): Current Perspectives and Recommendations

Olga Dzhioeva; Evgeny Belyavskiy

doi:10.2147/TCRM.S207117

Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): Current Perspectives and Recommendations

Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2020 Aug 21:16:769-785. doi: 10.2147/TCRM.S207117. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Olga Dzhioeva¹, Evgeny Belyavskiy²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Obesity, National Medical Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.
² Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a major global public health problem. Diagnosis of HFpEF is still challenging and built based on the comprehensive echocardiographic analysis. Currently, there are no universally accepted therapies that alter the clinical course of HFpEF. This review attempts to summarize the current advances in the diagnosis of HFpEF and provide future directions of the patients´ management with this very widespread, heterogeneous clinical syndrome.

Keywords: diastolic stress test; guidelines; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; transthoracic echocardiography.

Publication types

Review