Guideline documents

Cardiology guidelines are evidence-based summaries designed to provide up-to-date clinical recommendations for the diagnosis, risk stratification, treatment and follow-up of cardiovascular diseases, in accordance with international standards and the latest scientific evidence.

  • 2026 iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines on Ischemic Heart Disease

    Fausto J. Pinto, Martha Gulati, Daniel Caldeira, Clara K. Chow, Luis Henrique Wolff Gowdak, Dipti Itchhaporia, Abdulla Shehab, Gurpreet Singh Wander, Beth L. Abramson, Takashi Akasaka, Giuseppe Ambrosio, Alexandra Arias-Mendoza, Otavio Berwanger, Anastase Dzudie, Evangelos Giannitsis, Rania Hammami, Neil Johnson, Vijay Kunadian, Renato D. Lopes, Athanasios Manolis, Girish Mathur, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Ana Salvati, Gregg W. Stone, Jean-Claude Tardif, Ping Xie, Jian Zhang, Mohammad Zubaid, William T. Abraham, Wael Abuzeid, Rasha AlBawardy, Thomas Alexander , Stefan D. Anker , John J. Atherton, Andrea Baer, Rakesh Bhadade, William E. Boden, Gabriela Borrayo Sanchez, Javed Butler, Edina Cenko, Edith H. Chavez , Vijay Chopra, Andrew J.S. Coats, Marcelo Di Carli, Jianzeng Dong, Jan Fedacko, Gerasimos Filippatos, Abdoul Kane, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Pablos Lamelas, Michael Lee, Haroldo Lopez, Angela H.E.M. Maas, Mpiko Ntsekhe, Pat O’Donnell, Gian Piero Perna, Miguel Quintana, Bagirath Raghuraman, Ruchit Shah, Vladimir Ullauri, Sarah Zaman, Jose Luis Zamorano, Yuhui Zhang, Sheng-hua Zhou, Shelley Zieroth, Rod Zimmermann, Habib Gamra, Maria Ines Sosa Liprandi, Juan-Carlos Kaski
    2026-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2026.112
    1295
    PDF: 659
    APPENDIX: 72
    HTML: 3

  • 2026 iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines on Heart Failure

    Vijay Chopra, William T. Abraham, Offer Amir, Stefan D. Anker, John J. Atherton, Fernando Bacal, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben , Dulce Brito, Lucrecia Maria Burgos, Javed Butler, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Albertino Damasceno, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Ishaque Hameed, Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Anuradha Lala, Ileana L. Piña, Clara Saldarriaga, David Sim, John R. Teerlink, Nqoba Tsabedze, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Jing Yu, Yuhui Zhang, Mohammad Zubaid, Nikhil Balankhe, John G.F. Cleland, Gemma Figtree, Gerasimos Filippatos, Marat Fudim, Habib Gamra, Juan Esteban Gomez-Mesa, Martha Gulati, James L. Januzzi, Marvin A. Konstam, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Robert J. Mentz, Rhonda Monroe, Elijah Ogola, Fausto J. Pinto, Girish C. Rajadhyaksha, Carlos E. Ramos, Giuseppe Rosano, Victor Rossel, Naoki Sato, P. Christian Schulze, Andrew Sindone, Kadhim Sulaiman, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Harriette G.C. Van Spall, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Stephan von Haehling, Tzung-Dau Wang, Pepe Zamorano, Michael Böhm, Andrew J.S. Coats, Shelley Zieroth
    2026-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2026.117
    1867
    PDF: 1035
    APPENDIX: 66
    HTML: 3

  • What is new and what has changed in the 2026 Global Heart Failure Implementation Guidelines and why

    Vijay Chopra, William T. Abraham, Offer Amir, Stefan D. Anker, John J. Atherton, Fernando Bacal, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, Dulce Brito, Lucrecia Maria Burgos, Javed Butler, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Albertino Damasceno, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Ishaque Hameed, Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Anuradha Lala, Ileana L. Piña, Clara Saldarriaga, David Sim , John R. Teerlink, Nqoba Tsabedze, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Jing Yu, Yuhui Zhang, Mohammad Zubaid, Nikhil Balankhe, John G.F. Cleland, Gemma Figtree, Gerasimos Filippatos, Marat Fudim, Habib Gamra, Juan Esteban Gomez-Mesa, Martha Gulati, James L. Januzzi, Marvin A. Konstam, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Robert J. Mentz, Rhonda Monroe, Elijah Ogola, Fausto J. Pinto, Girish C. Rajadhyaksha, Carlos E. Ramos, Giuseppe Rosano, Victor Rossel, Naoki Sato, P. Christian Schulze, Andrew Sindone, Kadhim Sulaiman, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Harriette G.C. Van Spall, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Stephan von Haehling, Tzung-Dau Wang, Pepe Zamorano, Michael Böhm, Andrew J.S. Coats, Shelley Zieroth
    2026-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2026.118
    571
    PDF: 435
    APPENDIX: 41
    HTML: 3

  • iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines for the Management of Obesity 2025 - Focus on prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic disease

    Stefan D. Anker, Linong Ji, Tammy Kindel, Andrew J.S. Coats, Dike Ojji, Adriana Puente Barragán, Peter Rossing, Shelley Zieroth, Shaaf Ahmad, Shariq Usman, Geeta Appannah, Alison L. Bailey, Ahmed Bennis, Andrea Brandao, Javed Butler, Melanie J. Davies, Lubomira Fabryova, Yuanlin Guo, Hidetaka Itoh, Uday M. Jadhav, Carel W. Le Roux, Fausto J. Pinto, Julio Rosenstock, Banshi Saboo, Hani Sabbour, Mangesh Tiwaskar, Karol E. Watson, Kwang Wei Tham, Fernando Stuardo Wyss Quintana, Walter P. Abhayaratna, William T. Abraham, Wael Al Mahmeed , Alessia Argirò, John J. Atherton, Danielle Belardo, Raquel Campuzano Ruiz, Nandini Chatterjee, Vijay Chopra, Marc-André Cornier, Sarah Davies, Clemencia de Rueda Panadero, Anastase Dzudie, Ty J. Gluckman, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Kamlesh Khunti, Yuri Lopatin, Zhiyi Ma, Okechukwu S. Ogah, Abraham Oomman, Emilio S. Peralta Lopez, Ping Li, Paul Poirier, Julie Redfern, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Donna Ryan, Amit Saraf, Sameh Shaheen, Subodh Verma, Stephan von Haehling, Yuhui Zhang, Martha Gulati, Naveed Sattar, José Luis Zamorano
    2025-09-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.86
    4589
    PDF: 4004
    Supplementary: 465
    Appendix: 399

  • iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines on Heart Failure 2025

    Vijay Chopra, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Magdy Abdelhamid, William T. Abraham, Offer Amir, Stefan D. Anker, John J. Atherton, Fernando Bacal, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, Dulce Brito, Lucrecia Maria Burgos, Javed Butler, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Albertino Damasceno, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Ishaque Hameed, Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Tiny Jaarsma, Anuradha Lala, Ileana L. Piña, Clara Saldarriaga, David Sim, John R. Teerlink, Nqoba Tsabedze, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Jing Yu, Yuhui Zhang, Mohammad Zubaid, Nikhil Balankhe, Juan Esteban Gomez-Mesa, James L. Januzzi, Marvin Konstam, Rhonda Monroe, Elijah Ogola, Vinayagam Palaniappan, Mark C. Petrie, Fausto J. Pinto, Girish C. Rajadhyaksha, Amina Rakisheva, Carlos E. Ramos, Victor Rossel, Naoki Sato, P. Christian Schulze, Andrew Sindone, Hadi N. Skouri, Harriette G.C. Van Spall, Aistė Štaraitė, Lynne Warner Stevenson, Kadhim Sulaiman, Tzung-Dau Wang, Michael Böhm, Andrew J.S. Coats, Shelley Zieroth
    2025-06-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.70
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    PDF: 9482
    Appendix: 1209