# 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA heart failure guideline

Guideline · id `cardio:guideline-aha-acc-hfsa-2022-heart-failure` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `5dcd9b263fe17744` (public)

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## In plain language

The 2022 heart failure guideline from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America. Its abstract says it replaces the 2013 guideline and the 2017 focused update, and that it gives patient-centered recommendations for preventing, diagnosing and managing heart failure. The page for the four-class regimen lists the four medicine classes that an ACC summary names, and the pages of two medicine classes carry the class 1a statements of the summary, because the guideline text was not read.

## Technical summary

Circulation 2022;145(18):e895-e1032, doi 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001063, PMID 35363499. Electronic publication 2022-04-01. Issued by the joint ACC/AHA committee on clinical practice guidelines. The Heart Failure Society of America is named in the title and has no record in this atlas. PubMed lists three corrections (2022-05-03, 2022-09-27 and 2023-04-04); their text was not read. The ACC summary page is a separate source and is cite only.

## Connected pages

- Co-issuer, with the American College of Cardiology (title): American Heart Association (`core:aha`)
- Co-issuer, with the American Heart Association (title): American College of Cardiology (`core:acc`)

## Provenance

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Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-15