CardioPractice Cardio Talk

With Candice Silversides, University of Toronto, Toronto - Canada &  Bernard Clarke, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester - UK.

Experts discuss guidelines for managing patients with worsening heart failure including early follow-up, monitoring lab tests, and congestion state. Challenges of managing heart failure patients outside the hospital, role of general cardiologists in managing heart failure, importance of iron and diagnosis of iron deficiency, advancements in heart failure treatment with ARNI and SGL2 inhibitors.

With Marc Ferrini, CH Saint Joseph and Saint Luc, Lyon - France & Jean-Philippe Collet, Pitie Salpetriere APHP University Hospital, Paris -France.  

Experts Ruxandra Maria Christodorescu & Petar Seferovic discuss breakthroughs in heart failure management: Sacubitril-Valsartan, SGLT2 inhibitors, diuretics, LVADs. Challenges in follow-up timing, telemonitoring, nurse-centered care, and disparities in healthcare systems worldwide.

Guests Ruxandra Maria Christodorescu and Gerasimos Filippatos discuss criteria for identifying advanced heart failure and the importance of personalized follow-up strategies for high-risk patients. They highlight the HelpHF registry's findings and stress the need for general cardiologists to understand these criteria to provide specialized care.

With Riccardo Asteggiano, University of Insurbria, Varese - Italy & Bernard Cosyns, University of Brussels, Brussels - Belgium.

With Stefano Nistri, CMSR Veneto Medica, Altavilla Vicentina - Italy and Ali Nazmi Calik, Dr Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research, Istanbul - Turkey 

With Marc Ferrini, CH Saint Joseph and Saint Luc, Lyon - France and Pierre Deharo, APHM Hopital de la Timone, Marseille - France    

With Professor Konstantinos Toutouzas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens - Greece & Associate Professor Dimitrios T. Farmakis, University of Athens, Medical School, Athens - Greece & University of Cyprus Medical School, Nicosia - Cyprus.

With Riccardo Asteggiano, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese - Italy, LARC-Laboratorio Analisi e Ricerca Clinica, Turin - Italy & López-Fernández, La Paz Hospital, IdiPAZ Research Institute, Madrid - Spain