AHA/ACC/ESC/WHF Expert Consensus Document: Second Universal Definition of Heart Failure (2026)

Circulation · Published 2026-06-29 · DOI 10.1161/cir.0000000000001455

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Mary Norine Walsh, Lars Kober, Karen Sliwa, Marianna Adamo, Anubha Agarwal, Amitava Banerjee, Biykem Bozkurt, Maja Cikes, Albertino Damasceno, Akshay S. Desai, G. Michael Felker, Gail Hogan, Koichiro Kinugawa, Michelle Kittleson, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Theresa McDonagh, Marco Metra, Wilfried Mullens, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Yolanda Vaughn, Amanda Vest, on behalf of the Joint American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/World Heart Federation (WHF) Task Force for the Universal Definition of Heart Failure in collaboration with the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology, and the Japanese Heart Failure Society (JHFS)

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2026

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Walsh, M., Kober, L., Sliwa, K., et al. (2026). AHA/ACC/ESC/WHF Expert Consensus Document: Second Universal Definition of Heart Failure (2026). Circulation. https://doi.org/10.1161/cir.0000000000001455

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