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A Portuguese expert panel position paper on the management of heart failure wit...
Silva-Cardoso, José; Moreira, Emília; Tavares de Melo, Rachel; Moraes-Sarmento, Pedro; Cardim, Nuno; Oliveira, Mário; Gavina, Cristina; Moura, BrendaFunding Information: Ana Santos of Prime Focus provided medical writing, editorial support, and formatting assistance, which was contracted and funded by Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly Portugal. Publisher Copyright: © 2025; Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects more than 50% of HF patients worldwide, and more than 70% of HF patients aged over 65. This is a complex syndrome with a c...
A Portuguese expert panel position paper on the management of heart failure wit...
Silva-Cardoso, José; Moreira, Emília; Tavares de Melo, Rachel; Moraes-Sarmento, Pedro; Cardim, Nuno; Oliveira, Mário; Gavina, Cristina; Moura, BrendaFunding Information: Ana Santos of Prime Focus provided medical writing, editorial support, and formatting assistance, which was contracted and funded by Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly Portugal. Publisher Copyright: © 2025; In Portugal, a 15.2% prevalence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) was recently identified among those aged ≥50 years. HFpEF represents 90% of Portuguese heart failure...
Estudo de Prevalência de Insuficiência Cardíaca em Portugal (PORTHOS), fundamen...
Baptista, Rui; Silva Cardoso, José; Canhão, Helena; Maria Rodrigues, Ana; Kislaya, Irina; Franco, Fátima; Bernardo, Filipa; Pimenta, JoanaFunding Information: PORTHOS study arises from a scientific partnership between the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, AstraZeneca and NOVA Medical School. The authors are especially grateful to all the institutional partners that collaborated at various levels: Associação de Apoio aos Doentes com Insuficiência Cardíaca (AADIC), GlobalSports, Maria Design, Missão Continente (Sonae), Unilabs and GE. For the colla...
Pela melhoria do tratamento da insuficiência cardíaca em Portugal – documento d...
Fonseca, Cândida; Brito, Dulce; Cernadas, Rui; Ferreira, Jorge; Franco, Fátima; Rodrigues, Teresa; Morais, João; Silva Cardoso, JoséHeart failure is a syndrome with high prevalence, morbidity and mortality, but awareness of the disease is poor among the general public and policy makers. This document, which was prepared by a group of experts consisting of cardiologists, internists and general practitioners, aims to set out in detail the problem of heart failure in Portugal at several levels: burden of the disease, diagnosis, treatment and m...
Dabigatran for stroke prevention in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
Ferreira, Jorge; Ferreira, Daniel; Viana-Baptista, Miguel; Bettencourt, Paulo; Cernadas, Rui; Crespo, FranciscoDabigatran etexilate is a novel, oral, reversible, direct thrombin inhibitor that constitutes a major breakthrough for stroke prevention in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF). Dabigatran was the first new oral anticoagulant approved in Europe and became available in Portugal, for stroke prevention in nonvalvular AF, earlier than in most European countries. This paper is the joint effort of a pan...