title: Chronic heart failure: a report from the Dartmouth Diastole Discourses.
abstract: On February 28, 2004, a group of investigators and clinician scientists with expertise in the field of heart failure met for 2 days in Woodstock, VT, to discuss the status of the current heart failure nomenclature and to seek a consensus on whether and how this nomenclature might be changed. Despite a wide diversity of expressed opinions, several areas of discussion ultimately led to the consensus expressed in this document.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Methodist Hospita, Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. mquinones@tmh.tmc.edu
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Quiñones
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Zile
authors.forename: Barry M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Massie
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kass
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D003971:Diastole; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D013318:Stroke Volume; D013577:Syndrome; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling