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ReviewJournal of the American Heart Association2023

Acute Heart Failure Is a Malignant Process: But We Can Induce Remission.

Gad Cotter, Beth A Davison, Carolyn S P Lam, Marco Metra, Piotr Ponikowski, John R Teerlink, Alexandre Mebazaa

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Review in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. FIB-4 index predicts short-term mortality in Vietnamese acute heart failure patients.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2026
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  13. Heart Failure-Focus on Kidney Replacement Therapy: Why, When, and How?International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  17. Targeting Sodium in Heart Failure.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024
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  18. High-intensity care for GDMT titration.Heart failure reviews · 2024
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  20. Empowering European hospital pharmacists in the face of heart failure.European journal of hospital pharmacy : science and practice · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Gad CotterHeart Initiative Durham NC.ORCID 0000-0002-9613-3339
Beth A DavisonHeart Initiative Durham NC.
Carolyn S P LamNational Heart Centre Singapore Singapore.
Marco MetraCardiology, ASST Spedali Civili, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health University of Brescia Brescia Italy.
Piotr PonikowskiInstitute of Heart Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University Wrocław Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3391-7064
John R TeerlinkSection of Cardiology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and School of Medicine University of California San Francisco San Francisco CA.
Alexandre MebazaaUniversité Paris Cité, INSERM UMR-S 942 (MASCOT) Paris France.ORCID 0000-0001-8715-7753

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute heart failure is a common and increasingly prevalent condition, affecting >10 million people annually. For those patients who survive to discharge, early readmissions and death rates are >30% everywhere on the planet, making it a malignant condition. Beyond these adverse outcomes, it represents one of the largest drivers of health care costs globally. Studies in the past 2 years have demonstrated that we can induce remissions in this malignant process if therapy is instituted rapidly, at the first acute heart failure episode, using full doses of all available effective medications. Multiple studies have demonstrated that this goal can be achieved safely and effectively. Now the urgent call is for all stakeholders, patients, physicians, payers, politicians, and the public at large to come together to address the gaps in implementation and enable health care providers to induce durable remissions in patients with acute heart failure.

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Health Care CostsHeart FailureHumansPatient Dischargeacute heart failuremedicationsremission induction

Identifiers

PMID37889197
PMCPMC10727371

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