Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) implementation in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
CardiologyOptimizing Heart Failure Management: A High-Intensity, Patient-Centered Approach to Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy
August 12, 2025
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Primary Audience:
Cardiologists, emergency medicine, critical care, and primary care physicians, in addition to other healthcare professionals involved in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of patients with heart failure.
Relevant Terms:
Guideline-directed medical therapy; guidelines; heart failure (HF); heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF); heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF); therapy; medications; implementation; treatment initiation; treatment uptitration
Cristina Gavina, MD, PhD, MSc, FESC, FACC
Professor
University of Porto, Portugal
Head of the Cardiology Department and Director of Research and Epidemiology at Hospital Pedro Hispano, ULS Matosinhos, Portugal.
Stefan D, Anker, MD, PhD
Professor
Dept of Cardiology & BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum (CVK), Berlin, Germany
Stefan D. Anker is Professor of Tissue Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism at Charité Berlin. He obtained his MD (1993) from Charité Berlin, and his PhD (1998) from Imperial College London. Dr. Anker has authored more than 1,300 articles. He is named Highly Cited Researcher 2015–2023. Dr. Anker obtained several fellowships & grants, and for his work Dr. Anker has won several prizes, including the 2018 Copernicus Prize of German DFG & Polish FNP. Dr. Anker was awarded a Doctor honoris causa (Medical University Wroclaw / POL & Semmelweis University Budapest. Dr. Anker was Vice President of the ESC (2016-18) and President of the HFA of the ESC (2012-14). He was founding editor in chief of ESC Heart Failure (2014-22), and of JCSM (since 2010). Dr. Anker was and is member of >30 international clinical trial steering committees, chairing or co-chairing several currently (incl. FAIR-HF2, RESHAPE-HF2) as well as in the past (incl. EMPEROR-Preserved, FAIR-HF).| 1. | Apply best practices for the assessment and implementation of GDMT in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). |
| 1. | Apply best practices for the assessment and implementation of GDMT in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). |
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