The FOCUS-ADHF Registry

Acute heart failure (AHF) represents a significant clinical and economic burden due to its impact on patients' quality of life, poor prognosis, and high healthcare costs. Despite advancements in treatment, the optimal therapeutic management of these patients, particularly those with severely reduced ejection fraction and dilated left ventricles, remains uncertain. The last European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines gave a weak recommendation for using intravenous (IV) vasodilators in patients with adequate systolic blood pressure. This is derived from heterogeneous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) enrolling all-comers heart failure patients. Those studies did not specifically target conditions that from a pathophysiological perspective might derive potential positive response from vasodilators like left ventricle dilatation, significant mitral regurgitation and/or increased filling pressure. Patients with such characteristics show higher myocardial wall tension and are particularly vulnerable to afterload increases, positioning them as optimal candidates for vasodilator therapy during acute decompensation. Little evidence is available from real world cohort study on the benefit of vasodilators in this group of patients. Many of these studies used pre-defined protocol and invasive hemodynamic monitoring. On the contrary the use of echocardiographic evaluation to phenotype, infer hemodynamic parameters and assess treatment effect has become the most common adopted techn…

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