)Check for updatesAcute Heart Failure and Valvular Heart Disease:A Scientific Statement of the Heart FailureAssociation (HFA),the Association for Acute Cardi-Vascular Care (ACVC)and theEuropean Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)of the ESCOvidiu Chioncel2,Marianna Adamo,Maria Nikolaou,John Parissis Alexandre Mebazaa,Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz?,Christian Hassagers,Brenda Moura,Johann Bauersachs10,Veli-PekkaHarjola,Elena-Laura Antohi,Tuvia Ben Gal,Sean P.Collins3 Vlad Anton Iliescu,MagdyAbdelhamid4 Jelena Celutkiene5,Stamatis Adamopoulos Lars H Lund7,MariantoniettaeCicoira Josep Masip20,Hadi Skour,Finn Gustafsson22,Amina Rakisheva2,Ingo Ahrens4Andrea Mortara25,Ewa Jankowska26,Abdallah Almaghraby27,Kevin Damman28,Oscar Miro29,Kurt Huber0 Arsen Ristic1.2,Loreena Hill 3,Wilfried Mullens,Alaide Chieffo35.JosefBartunek37,Pasquale Paolisso,Antoni Bayes-Genis9,Stefan DAnker,Susanna Price1,Gerasimos Filippatos,2 Frank Ruschitzka,Petar Seferovic Rafael Vidal Perez5 AlecVahanian46,Marco Metra3,Theresa A McDonagh47,Emanuele Barbato48,Andrew JS Coats49,andGiuseppe MC Rosano5o1.Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases 'Prof.C.C.Iliescu',Bucharest;2.University of Medicine Carol Davila,Bucharest,Romania3.Cardiology,Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties,Radiological Sciences,and PublicHealth,University of Brescia,Brescia,Italy4.Cardiology Department,General Hospital'Sismanogleio-Amalia Fleming',Athens,Greece5.Heart Failure Unit and University Clinic of Emergency Medicine,Attikon University Hospital,National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School,Athens,Greece6.University of Paris Diderot,Hopitaux Universitaires Saint Louis Lariboisiere,APHP,Paris,France7.Division of Cardiology,Department of Internal Medical Sciences,School of Medicine,DokuzEylul University,Istanbul,Turkey8.Department of Cardiology,Rigshospitalet and Dept of Clinical Medicine,University ofCopenhagen,Copenhagen,DenmarkThis article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not beenthrough the copyediting,typesetting,pagination and proofreading process which may lead todifferences between this version and the Version of Record.Please cite this article as doi:10.1002/ejhf2918This article is protected by copyright.All rights reserved.