Giovanna Manzi, Tommaso Recchioni, Alexandra Mihai, Paolo Severino, Lucia Ilaria Birtolo, Domenico Filomena, Andrea D'Amato, Massimo Mancone, Silvia Papa, Roberto Badagliacca, Carmine Dario Vizza
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Abstract
The natural history of patients with heart failure (HF), mainly affecting the left ventricle in the initial stages, is marked by the progressive involvement of the right ventricle (RV), which in the advanced stages of the disease becomes dilated and dysfunctional. The geometrical, functional, and pathological interdependence binding the two ventricles underlies this progressive path. Researchers' and clinicians' efforts must be aimed at interrupting the inevitable trajectory of HF, by preventing the development of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and RV dysfunction or the transition from isolated post-capillary PH to combined pre- and post-capillary PH. The search for drugs targeting the pulmonary circulation is another goal of PH researchers. Studies conducted so far on drugs currently approved for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension have yielded contradictory results; an in-depth analysis of these trials could help researchers profile the patients with HF who might benefit from these treatments.
期刊介绍:
The European Heart Journal Supplements (EHJs) is a long standing member of the ESC Journal Family that serves as a publication medium for supplemental issues of the flagship European Heart Journal. Traditionally EHJs published a broad range of articles from symposia to special issues on specific topics of interest.
The Editor-in-Chief, Professor Roberto Ferrari, together with his team of eminent Associate Editors: Professor Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Professors Jeroen Bax, Michael Böhm, Frank Ruschitzka, and Thomas Lüscher from the European Heart Journal, has implemented a change of focus for the journal. This entirely refreshed version of the European Heart Journal Supplements now bears the subtitle the Heart of the Matter to give recognition to the focus the journal now has.
The EHJs – the Heart of the Matter intends to offer a dedicated, scientific space for the ESC, Institutions, National and Affiliate Societies, Associations, Working Groups and Councils to disseminate their important successes globally.