Overview

PASCAR Africa Heart Failure Association

Task Force Chair Person: Prof Albertino Damasceno (Mozambique): tino_7117@yahoo.com.br

Task Force Co-Chair: Dr Anders Barasa (Denmark)

Click here to view: PASCAR Task Force Heart Failure: Report and Plans for 2018 - 2021

Publications

Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Brenda Moura, Marco Metra, Michael Böhm, Johann Bauersachs, Tuvia Ben Gal, Stamatis Adamopoulo et al. Patient profiling in heart failure for tailoring medical therapy. A consensus document of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, European Journal of Heart Failure (2021) 23, 872–881. doi:10.1002/ejhf.2206 (click here to read and download)

Theresa A. McDonagh, Marco Metra, Marianna Adamo, Roy S. Gardner, et al.  2021 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure. European Heart Journal (2021), doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehab368 (click here to read and download)

Theresa A. McDonagh, Marco Metra, Marianna Adamo, Roy S. Gardner, et al.  2021 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure. European Heart Journal (2021), doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehab368 (click here to read and download)

Karen Sliwa, Peter van der Meer, Mark C. Petrie, Alexandra Frogoudaki, Mark R. Johnson, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner et al. Risk stratification and management of women with cardiomyopathy/heart failure planning pregnancy or presenting during/after pregnancy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Study Group on Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. European Journal of Heart Failure (2021), doi:10.1002/ejhf.2133  (click here to read and download pdf).

ESW Jones, Albertino Damasceno, Elijah N Ogola, Dike B Ojji, Anastase Dzudie, BL Rayner. PASCAR Commentary on the International Society of Hypertension Global Guidelines 2020: Relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa. CVJA (31)06,325-330 (click here to read and download pdf).

Kamilu M. Karaye, Hadiza Sa’idu, Sulaiman A. Balarabe, Naser A. Ishaq, Umar G. Adamu, Idris Y. Mohammed et al. Clinical Features and Outcomes of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in Nigeria. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Nov, 76 (20) 2352–2364 ( click here to download pdf)

Samer Kabbani, Waleed Al Habeeb, Houng-Bang Liew, et al.   Supporting the Management of Patients with Heart Failure within Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and African Countries: A Toolbox for Healthcare Providers Cardiology 2019;142(suppl 1):1–10 ( click here to download pdf)

WHF and Astra Zeneca.  Heart Failure Gap Report  June 2020 (click here to download pdf)

Carolyn S P Lam, Adriaan A Voors, Ponikowski Piotr, John J V McMurray, Scott D Solomon.Time to Rename the Middle Child of Heart Failure: Heart Failure with Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction European Heart Journal, Volume 41, Issue 25, 1 July 2020 (click here to read the article)

João Pedro Ferreira, Sarah Krausy , Sharon Mitchellz, et al. World Heart Federation Roadmap for Heart Failure GLOBAL HEART, VOL. 14, NO. 3, 2019 (click here to download pdf)

Mattia Arrigo, Alice Blet, et al. Bromocriptine for the treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy: Welcome on BOARD. European Heart Journal 2017 (click here to download PDF)

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Arash Haghiki, et al. Bromocriptine for the treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a multicentre randomized study. European Heart Journal 2017 (click here to download PDF)

Elizabeth Namukwaya, Liz Grant, et al. Improving care for people with heart failure in Uganda: serial in-depth interviews with patients’ and their health care professionals. BMC Research Notes, 2017. (click here to download PDF)

Friedrich Thienemann a,Anastase Dzudie, et al. The causes, treatment, and outcome of pulmonary hypertension in Africa: Insights from the Pan African Pulmonary Hypertension Cohort (PAPUCO) International Journal of Cardiology 2016  (click here to download PDF)

Dike Ojji, John Atherton, et al. Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Asymptomatic Black Hypertensive Subjects. American Journal of Hypertension Advance Access, January 2015 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Beth A. Davison, et al. Gender differences in clinical characteristics and outcome of acute heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa: results of the THESUS-HF study. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Karen Sliwa, et al. Hypertensive Heart Failure in Nigerian Africans: Insights from the Abeokuta Heart Failure Registry. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Simon Stewart, et al. Economic Burden of Heart Failure: Investigating Outpatient and Inpatient Costs in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria. PLOS ONE, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Dike B Ojji, Lionel H Opie, et al. The proposed role of plasma NT pro-brain natriuretic peptide in assessing cardiac remodelling in hypertensive African subjects. CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA, September/October 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Thomas Callender, Mark Woodward, et al. Heart Failure Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLOS Medicine, August 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Anastase Dzudie, Andre Pascal Kengne, et al. Predictors of hospitalisations for heart failure and mortality in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease. BMJ Open, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Simon Stewart, et al. Contemporary Profile of Acute Heart Failure in Southern Nigeria. JACC: Heart Failure, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Mahmoud U. Sani, Beth A Davison, et al. Renal dysfunction in African patients with acute heart failure. European Journal of Heart Failure, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Anastase Dzudie, Olga Milo, et al. Prognostic Significance of ECG Abnormalities for Mortality Risk in Acute Heart Failure: Insight From the Sub-Saharan Africa Survey of Heart. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Simon Stewart, et al. Economic Burden of Heart Failure: Investigating Outpatient and Inpatient Costs in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria. PLOS ONE, November 2014  (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Simon Stewart, et al. Contemporary Profile of Acute Heart Failure in Southern Nigeria. JACC Heart Failure, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Karen Sliwa, et al. Hypertensive Heart Failure in Nigerian Africans: Insights from the Abeokuta Heart Failure Registry. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, November 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S. Ogah, Simon Stewart, et al. Predictors of Rehospitalization in Patients Admitted With Heart Failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 2014 (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S Ogah, Simon Stewart, et al. Short-term outcomes after hospital discharge in patients admitted with heart failure in Abeokuta, Nigeria:  Data from the Abeokuta Heart Failure Registry. CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA, August 2014. (click here to download PDF)

Okechukwu S Ogah, Ikechi Okpechi, et al. Blood pressure, prevalence of hypertension and hypertension related complications in Nigerian Africans: A review. World Journal of Cardiology, Desember 2012 (click here to download PDF)

Corporate Support and Partners

News and events

PASCAR Africa Heart Failure Course Application - 29 February 2024

               Click to Apply                                                                           Click to Learn More

PASCAR All Africa Heart Failure Live Webinar - 7 September 2023

                   Click here to learn more                                                       Click here to register

PASCAR Acute Heart Failure & THESUS-II Study Meeting at ESC Congress, 28 August 2023

                   Click to Learn More                                                                   Click to Register  

African Heart Failure Course 2021 - Personal Statement and Application

The faculty of the Africa-HF course is determined to deliver a high quality and bespoke course to the most enthusiastic applicants.

Our vision is that the attendees of today will be the Heart Failure champions of tomorrow. To help us in this respect, we ask that you complete the structured motivation and personal statement below, which together with your curriculum vitae and letter of recommendation will help us select the most suitable candidates for this prestigious course.

Please submit your application (and documentation) by no later than 15 January 2021. Successful applicants will be informed early February 2021.

Please CLICK HERE to submit your application

PASCAR Heart Failure Task Force - WCC Dubai December 2018

Communication, Toolkit and Resources

Stride BP Training - Useful resources for health-care professionals to perform office, ambulatory and home blood pressure measurements.  Click Here to Access the Resources

Pan-African Society of Cardiology: An overview of the Society’s important activities in 2014 (click here to download PDF)

THESUS-HF II Study

Call for Participation THESUS-HF II Study 

Click to Read More & Participate

THESUS-HF II Study Newsletter, April 2024

Click to Read