Telemonitoring in Chronic Heart Failure

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapidly increasing prevalence and incidence of chronic heart failure (CHF), the burden of CHF on healthcare systems worldwide is expected to grow rapidly. The main burden in these heart failure (HF) patients is the need for repeated hospitalizations due to decompensated HF, which has enormous impact on hospital resources and delivery of standard care. It is known that HF prognosis worsens with every hospitalization due to myocardial and renal damage. It is therefore inevitable to develop effective methods to remotely monitor patients in order to timely detect deterioration and prevent heart failure hospitalizations which will in turn lead to better prognosis on the one hand and relief of CHF burden on the other hand. Efforts are focussing on keeping the patients out of the hospital. These methods are also referred to as telemonitoring and several methods have been proposed and tested in clinical studies over the past decades.

Telemonitoring can roughly be divided into monitoring of non-invasive physical parameters reflecting clinical congestion such as blood pressure and weight, monitoring by cardiac implantable electronic devices such as ICD’s and pacemakers and monitoring by (more) invasive sensors measuring intravascular or cardiac pressures.

This special issue will focus on the efficacy of all available techniques and methods of telemonitoring by providing separate in-depth reviews in the area of heart failure. Furthermore, a view on future perspectives will be provided in this aspect of heart failure management. We strongly encourage scientists worldwide to submit their work relevant to the subject of this special issue. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Developments in heart failure telemonitoring
• E-Health in heart failure
• Artificial intelligence in telemedicine in heart failure

Dr. Jasper J. Brugts
Dr. Dominic A.M.J. Theuns
MD Sumant P. Radhoe
MD Jesse F. Veenis
Guest Editors

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