Acute heart failure: classification, diagnosis, general approaches to treatment

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Acute heart failure (HF) is a syndrome requiring urgent treatment. Due to drastic increase in the number of HF patients this problem is still of great importance for modern public health care and has a significant impact on morbidity and mortality. This article presents modern approaches to the classification of this condition, describes diagnostic algorithms, and discovers general methods of acute HF therapy. Two clinical axes are described – the presence of stasis in one or two circuits of blood circulation and peripheral hypoperfusion, on the basis of which the individual approaches to treatment strategy of patients with this symptom complex are developed.

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Igor V. Zhirov

National Medical Research Center of Cardiology; Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education

Author for correspondence.
Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4066-2661

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology

Russian Federation, Moscow

Svetlana N. Nasonova

National Medical Research Center of Cardiology

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0920-7417

Cand. Sci. (Med.), National Medical Research Center of Cardiology

Russian Federation, Moscow

Ulkiar A. Khalilova

People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0724-6508

Graduate Student, People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Russian Federation, Moscow

Yulia F. Osmolovskaya

National Medical Research Center of Cardiology

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7827-2618

Cand. Sci. (Med.), National Medical Research Center of Cardiology

Russian Federation, Moscow

Olga Ia. Chaikovskaia

National Medical Research Center of Cardiology

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2251-1675

Clinical Resident, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology

Russian Federation, Moscow

Irina A. Zhirova

People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6621-2052

Cand. Sci. (Med.), People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Russian Federation, Moscow

Rinat R. Gimadiev

People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9567-3317

Аssistant, People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Russian Federation, Moscow

Anatolii G. Kochetov

People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University); Institute of Laboratory Medicine

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3632-291X

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof., People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Institute of Laboratory Medicine

Russian Federation, Moscow

Sergei N. Tereshchenko

National Medical Research Center of Cardiology; Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education

Email: izhirov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9234-6129

D. Sci. (Med.), National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education

Russian Federation, Moscow

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