Innovations in Advanced Heart Failure Detection and Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2026 | Viewed by 93
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced heart failure; systolic heart failure; mechanical circulatory support; left ventricular assist device; heart transplantation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced heart failure remains a complex, evolving syndrome that demands earlier detection and more effective, long‑term therapies. Worsening heart failure, or deteriorating HF clinical condition, could be a sign of advanced heart failure. Despite progress in diagnostics and therapeutics, management remains challenging due to (1) diverse—and often underrecognized—presentations; (2) the burden of comorbidities and psychosocial factors; and (3) the need for shared decision‑making that balances survival, quality of life, and the risks associated with aggressive interventions.
This Special Issue aims to highlight strategies that support earlier identification and optimized treatment for patients with advanced heart failure. Areas of interest include novel approaches to detecting ambulatory advanced heart failure and recent advances in left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy and heart transplantation, all with the goal of improving access and long‑term outcomes. Particular emphasis is placed on barriers to implementing heart failure medications, physiologic profiling, wearable and implantable sensors, remote monitoring platforms, machine learning approaches that capture dynamic risk, next‑generation pump technologies, donor heart preservation, precision immunosuppression, and noninvasive rejection surveillance. We invite submissions offering clinical insights, research findings, and multidisciplinary perspectives that advance the evolving landscape of advanced heart failure management.
Dr. Vinh Q. Chau
Dr. Nikhil Narang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced heart failure
- systolic heart failure
- mechanical circulatory support
- left ventricular assist device
- heart transplantation outcomes
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