Expert opinion on the identification and pharmacological management of worsening heart failure: A consensus statement from India

Sandeep Seth¹, Johann Bauersachs², Sanjay Mittal³, Vishal Rastogi⁴, Rajeev Kumar Rajput⁵, Dheeraj Gandotra⁶, Ripen Gupta⁷, Manoj Sahu⁸, SN Pathak⁹, Mohit Bhagwati¹⁰, Simmi Minocha¹¹, Pawan Sharma¹², Deepankar Vatsa¹³, Raghav Aggarwal¹⁴, Gyanti R B Singh¹⁵, Gaurav Arora¹⁶, Samir Kubba¹⁷, Meera Rajeev¹⁸, Pratik Jha¹⁸, BS Vivek¹⁹, Mohit Gupta²⁰, Rameshwar Bishnoi²¹, Rashi Khare²², Vipul Gupta²³, Naresh Kumar Goyal²⁴, Aseem Dhall²⁵, Amit Madan²⁶, BD Sharma²⁷, Atul D Abhyankar²⁸, Pravin Kahale²⁹, Talha Meeran³⁰, Babu Ezhumalai³¹, BC Kalmath³², VT Shah³³, Sandip Rungta³⁴, P Ashok Kumar³⁵, Sunil Christopher³⁶, Alok A Shah³⁷, Ramesh Dargad³⁸, Kaushik Sheth³⁹, Abhay Khode⁴⁰, Sunil P Mehta⁴¹, Bommareddy V A Ranga Reddy⁴², Puneet Gupta⁴³, BK Tripathi⁴⁴, Ritwick Raj Bhuyan^45
1 Department of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
² Department of Cardiology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany
³ Department of Cardiology, Director, Clinical and Preventive Cardiology- Heart Institute, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurugram, India
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Director Cardiology and Head -Medical Advanced Heart Failure Program at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Delhi, India
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Senior Consultant Cardiologist & Intervention Cardiologist, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, Gurugram, India
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Fortis Hospital, Gurugram, India
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Senior Director & Unit Head, Cardiac Sciences, Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology-Pacemaker, Interventional Cardiology, Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, India
⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
⁹ Department of Cardiology, Consultant- Interventional Cardiologist, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Sarita Vihar, New Delhi, India
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology and Incharge, Acute Cardiac Care and Heart Failure Clinic, Holy Family Hospital, New Delhi, India
¹¹ Department of Cardiology, Director Cardiology Accord Hospital, Faridabad, India
¹² Department of Cardiology, Associate Director-Cardiac Science Max Super Speciality Hospital, Patparganj, (Delhi), India
¹³ Department of Cardiology, Consultant, Yatharth Super Specialty Hospital, Greater Noida, India
¹⁴ Department of Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist, Max Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, Senior Consultant, Cardiology & CTVS, Metro Group of Hospitals, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
¹⁶ Department of Cardiology, Assistant Professor, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
¹⁷ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Director -Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vaishali, India
¹⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Senior Resident, CTVS, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
¹⁹ Department of Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist, Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, India
²⁰ Department of Cardiology, Professor, GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India
²¹ Department of Cardiology, Senior Consultant Cardiac Sciences, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Shalimaar Bagh Delhi, India
²² Department of Cardiology, Senior Consultant-Cardiology, Fortis Shalimar Bagh, India
²³ Department of Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist and Physician, Gupta Ultrasound and Heart Care Centre, West Delhi, India
²⁴ Department of Cardiology, Director & HOD Cardiology & Heart Failure Programme, Fortis Hospital Shalimar Bagh, India
²⁵ Department of Cardiology, Director & Head, ISIC -Saroj Cardiac Sciences, Vasant Kunj New Delhi, India
²⁶ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Fortis Hospital, Noida, India
²⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Senior Consultant Internal Medicine, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Patparganj, India
²⁸ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Director of Interventional Cardiology - Mahavir Heart Institute, Surat, India
²⁹ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Senior Interventional Cardiologist & HF Specialist, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Research Centre, Andheri Mumbai, India
³⁰ Department of Advanced Cardiac Sciences & Heart Transplant, Consultant- Advanced Cardiac Sciences & Heart Transplant, Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, India
³¹ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist & Heart Failure Specialist, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India
³² Department of Cardiology, Professor of Cardiology & Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Bombay Hospital/Horizon Hospital, Mumbai, India
³³ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Dr. V T Shah's Diagnostic Centre & Clinic, Mumbai, India
³⁴ Department of Cardiology, Senior Cardiologist, AMRI Hospital, Kolkata, India
³⁵ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Sparsh Hospital, Bangalore, India
³⁶ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, SS Sparsh Hospital, Bangalore, India
³⁷ Physician & Intensivist, Aarav Clinic, Surat, India
³⁸ Department of Cardiology, Consultant Physician Cardiology, Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, India
³⁹ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Interventional Cardiologist, Ruby Hospital, Pune, India
⁴⁰ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Interventional Cardiologist, Cardio Vision, Pune, India
⁴¹ Department of Cardiology, Senior Consulting & Cardiac Physician, HCG Hospital, Ahmedabad, India
⁴² Department of Interventional Cardiology, Interventional Cardiologist, Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, India
⁴³ Department of Cardiology, Associate Professor, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
⁴⁴ Department of Medicine, CGHS, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
⁴⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Director-CTVS, Fortis Escorts, Delhi, India

Correspondence Address:
Sandeep Seth
Department of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/jpcs.jpcs_32_23