title: Diagnosis and management of acute heart failure.
abstract: Acute heart failure (AHF) is a life threatening clinical syndrome with a progressively increasing incidence in general population. Turkey is a country with a high cardiovascular mortality and recent national statistics show that the population structure has turned to an 'aged' population.As a consequence, AHF has become one of the main reasons of admission to cardiology clinics. This consensus report summarizes clinical and prognostic classification of AHF, its worldwide and national epidemiology, diagnostic work-up, principles of approach in emergency department,intensive care unit and ward, treatment in different clinical scenarios and approach in special conditions and how to plan hospital discharge.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Kocaeli University; Kocaeli-Turkey. dilekural@yandex.com.
authors.forename: Dilek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ural
authors.forename: Yüksel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Çavuşoğlu
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eren
authors.forename: Kurtuluş
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karaüzüm
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Temizhan
authors.forename: Mehmet Birhan
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zoghi
authors.forename: Kumudha
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ramassubu
authors.forename: Biykem
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bozkurt
mesh_terms: D019468:Disease Management; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology