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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 23, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(22):2619-2620; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl332
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Is acute heart failure a highly prevalent orphan disease?

Luc W. Eurlings1, James L. Januzzi2 and Yigal M. Pinto1,*

1 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Maastricht, P. Debyelaan 25, PO Box 5800, Maastricht 6202 AZ, The Netherlands
2 Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31 433 877 097; fax: +31 433 875 104. E-mail address: y.pinto@cardio.azm.nl

This editorial refers to ‘EuroHeart Failure Survey II (EHFS II): a survey on hospitalized acute heart failure patients: description of population’{dagger} by M.S. Nieminenet al., on page 2725

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A large proportion of patients admitted to a cardiology service suffer from acute heart failure (HF). Despite these high numbers, there is surprising little scientific evidence regarding the treatment of this patient group. Most studies of HF treatment have investigated subjects with chronic, stable HF, whether or not preceded by an acute phase of decompensation. But patients with acute HF are a fundamentally different population when compared with chronic heart failure (CHF) patients, as a part of the latter have proven to be more able to survive acute HF and stabilize to a chronic form and some CHF patients did not experience an acute episode at all. Indeed, to what extent the population of acute HF patients differs from the well-known CHF patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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