title: [Acute heart failure].
abstract: Acute heart failure is a life-threatening medical emergency and appropriate management can reduce the morbidity and mortality of heart failure. Despite advances in treatments, the number of deaths has increased steadily. Therefore, the guideline was assigned to convey to the physicians the virtue of medical management with recent trends in pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments. Japanese new guidelines for the management of acute heart failure have been published from the Japanese Circulation Society in October, 2000, which was partially based on ACC/AHA guideline in 1995 but prepared under consideration of medical benefits system and health care system in Japan. We expect that the guideline would be revised to make it more useful with continual advances in the management strategies in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Kanazawa Medical University.
authors.forename: Noboru
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takekoshi
authors.forename: Takayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asaji
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004232:Diuretics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007423:Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D004232:Diuretics; D014665:Vasodilator Agents