2019 Focused Update of the Guidelines of the Taiwan Society of Cardiology for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Failure

Heart failure is a growing epidemic, especially in Taiwan because of the aging population. The 2016 Taiwan Society of Cardiology – Heart Failure with reduced Ejection Fraction (TSOC-HFrEF) registry showed that the guideline-recommended therapies were prescribed suboptimally both at the time of hospital discharge and during follow-up. We, therefore, conducted this 2019 focused update of the guidelines of the Taiwan Society of Cardiology for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure to reinforce the importance of new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities of heart failure