2026 ESC heart failure guidelines

Context Patients with heart failure (2026 ESC guideline)

Recipient

Recipient not specified

Population

Patients with heart failure. The ESC page summary gives no age limits and no inclusion criteria.

Care setting

Not stated on the ESC page.

Geography

Europe (a European Society of Cardiology guideline; the page names no jurisdiction)

Life stage

Not stated on the ESC page

Gestational age

Not reported

Postnatal age

Not reported

Follow-up

Not applicable (guideline context)

• Description Guidance Certainty not assessed

  The ESC page for the 2026 ESC heart failure guideline, dated 28 August 2026, says the guideline refines how heart failure is classified by left ventricular ejection fraction and adds a stage-based classification that puts more weight on prevention, on spotting the disease early and on acting in good time. It also proposes a revised set of names for heart failure therapies.

  Applies to Recipient not specified

  • Patients with heart failure. The ESC page summary gives no age limits and no inclusion criteria.
  • Not stated on the ESC page.
  • Europe (a European Society of Cardiology guideline; the page names no jurisdiction)
  • Not stated on the ESC page
  • Gestational age Not reported
  • Postnatal age Not reported

  Follow-up Not applicable (guideline context)

  Certainty method

  Not assessed

  Limitations

  Only the ESC page summary and the PubMed record (which holds no abstract) were read; the guideline text, its recommendations and their classes were not. ESC content is cite only, so this atlas states the summary in its own words. PubMed lists no correction to this guideline (checked 2026-10-15).

  Last checked

  2026-10-15

  Next evidence check due

  Not scheduled

  Sources and citations (3)

  1. Supports 2026 ESC Guidelines for the management of heart failure

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology and published in European Heart Journal 47(38):5346-5457 (PubMed issue date 2026-10-09; the ESC page dates the guideline 28 Aug, 2026). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. The facts come from the PubMed record and the ESC guideline page. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2026-08-28 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehag100 · PMID: 42661420

     Locator

     Summary paragraph 1, fragments 1 to 3

     How it applies

     Classification by ejection fraction refined; stage-based classification added.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:07Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Current

     Snapshot hash

     6fb8df7089b8ee907222cf0eddba22ec5e0f419c5a99d51fef92eef7ae48791a

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.

  2. Supports 2026 ESC Guidelines for the management of heart failure

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology and published in European Heart Journal 47(38):5346-5457 (PubMed issue date 2026-10-09; the ESC page dates the guideline 28 Aug, 2026). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. The facts come from the PubMed record and the ESC guideline page. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2026-08-28 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehag100 · PMID: 42661420

     Locator

     Summary paragraph 2, sentence 1

     How it applies

     A revised nomenclature for therapies is proposed.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:07Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Current

     Snapshot hash

     6fb8df7089b8ee907222cf0eddba22ec5e0f419c5a99d51fef92eef7ae48791a

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.

  3. Background 2026 ESC Guidelines for the management of heart failure

     Guideline · European Heart Journal · Edition Issued by the European Society of Cardiology and published in European Heart Journal 47(38):5346-5457 (PubMed issue date 2026-10-09; the ESC page dates the guideline 28 Aug, 2026). PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy; the guideline text was not read. The facts come from the PubMed record and the ESC guideline page. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2026-08-28 · DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehag100 · PMID: 42661420

     Locator

     Page date line

     How it applies

     Date shown on the ESC page.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:07Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Current

     Snapshot hash

     6fb8df7089b8ee907222cf0eddba22ec5e0f419c5a99d51fef92eef7ae48791a

     Reuse basis

     ESC page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15, and a PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities the same day. Only hashes are kept; nothing is committed. The ESC page states that its guidelines are for personal or educational use with no commercial use, that re-use permission must be obtained from the publisher, and that the ESC reserves the right to license use of its guidelines to train generative AI models (EU Directive 2019/790, Article 4 section 3). Public text is cite_only: public pages state the guideline in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ESC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.