Acute and Chronic Heart Failure: Biomarkers-Guided Therapy and Clinical Management

Dear Colleagues,

The prevalence of heart failure is increasing and prognosis continues to be bad. Nowadays, the main challenges in heart failure are establishing the diagnosis and prognosis and choosing the best treatment. Biomarkers, as indicators of a biological state that can be measured, may play a prominent role in heart failure management. They have been used to understand heart failure pathogenesis, to improve diagnosis and to guide treatment, though with conflicting results. Although treatment of heart failure has improved prognosis in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, that has not been the case in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. However, biomarkers could be useful in identifying subgroup of patients in whom a treatment might be useful. This Special Issue aims to provide researchers with an opportunity to publish original research related to biomarkers in heart failure, both acute and chronic, with a particular focus on predictive, diagnostic or prognostic value of classic and novel biomarkers.

Dr. Nuria Farre
Guest Editor

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