ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC

John J V McMurray ¹,  Stamatis Adamopoulos,  Stefan D Anker,  Angelo Auricchio,  Michael Böhm,  Kenneth Dickstein,  Volkmar Falk,  Gerasimos Filippatos,  Cândida Fonseca,  Miguel Angel Gomez-Sanchez,  Tiny Jaarsma,  Lars Køber,  Gregory Y H Lip,  Aldo Pietro Maggioni,  Alexander Parkhomenko,  Burkert M Pieske,  Bogdan A Popescu,  Per K Rønnevik,  Frans H Rutten,  Juerg Schwitter,  Petar Seferovic,  Janina Stepinska,  Pedro T Trindade,  Adriaan A Voors,  Faiez Zannad,  Andreas Zeiher,  ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines