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Heart Failure with Recovered EF and Heart Failure with Mid-Range EF: Current Recommendations and Controversies

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Abstract

Purpose of review

This review explores key features and potential management controversies in two emerging populations in heart failure: heart failure with recovered ejection fraction (HF-recovered EF) and heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction (HFmrEF).

Recent findings

While HF-recovered EF patients have better outcomes than heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), they continue to have symptoms, persistent biomarker elevations, and abnormal outcomes suggesting a continued disease process. HFmrEF patients appear to have features of HFrEF and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but have a high prevalence of ischemic heart disease and may represent a transitory phase between the HFrEF and HFpEF. Management strategies have insufficient data to warrant standardization at this time.

Summary

HF-recovered EF and HFmrEF represent new populations with unmet needs and expose the pitfalls of an EF basis for heart failure classification.

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Unkovic, P., Basuray, A. Heart Failure with Recovered EF and Heart Failure with Mid-Range EF: Current Recommendations and Controversies. Curr Treat Options Cardio Med 20, 35 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11936-018-0628-9

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