Heart Failure Society of America

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Heart Failure Society of America
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Formation 1995
Type
Headquarters
Membership
Language
Leader title President
Leader name Randall C. Starling (2018)
Website


The Heart Failure Society of America is an American organization of heart failure experts who have an interest in heart function and heart failure. Founded in 1995,<ref name="HFSAweb">

HFSA Website(link). '.




</ref> it provides a forum for experts and patients with the aim of reducing the burden of heart failure.<ref name="Pan">

PAN Foundation - Heart Failure Society of America(link). panfoundation.org.


Accessed 12 November 2018.


</ref> It has produced advice on categorizing heart failure<ref name=Mebazaa2009>Alexandre, 

 Acute Heart Failure. online version, 
  
 Springer Science & Business Media, 
  
  
  
 ISBN 9781846287817, 
  
  
  
 Pages: 5,</ref> and it produces guidelines including the 2010 comprehensive heart failure practice guidelines<ref name="Anderson2015">Kelley M., 
  
 The Advanced Practice Nurse Cardiovascular Clinician. online version, 
  
 Springer Publishing Company, 
  
  
  
 ISBN 9780826138576, 
  
  
  
 Pages: 681,</ref> and the 2013 Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure.<ref name="Lancet">Wilcox, Jane, 
 Stopping medication for heart failure with improved ejection fraction, 
 The Lancet, 
 
 Vol. 0(Issue: 10166),
 pp. 8–10,
 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32825-3,
 PMID: 30429051,
 
 
 Full text,</ref> In 2018, a forum was created with people of various stages of advanced heart failure and specialists in cardiology.<ref name="Medscape2018">

Styles, Steve. Medscape Log In(link). www.medscape.com.

6 November 2018.

Accessed 12 November 2018.


(subscription required)</ref> Past presidents have included Mandeep R. Mehra, who took up the position in 2016.<ref name="GandhiInstitute"> Administrator. Dr Mandeep Mehra(link). www.mgims.ac.in.


Accessed 12 November 2018.


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