The autonomic nervous system as a therapeutic target in heart failure: a scientific position statement from the Translational Research Committee of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University Medical Hospital, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
• ² National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
• ³ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁴ Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
• ⁶ Clinic for Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Internal Medicine, Homburg, Germany.
• ⁷ First Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
• ⁸ German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Mannheim, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiology, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
• ¹¹ Department of Medicine, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• ¹² Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ¹³ Laboratory of Physiopharmacology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens University Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁵ University Health Network and Sinai Health System Division of Cardiology, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institutes, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁶ Clinica Medica, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁷ IRCCS Multimedica, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁸ Department of Heart Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
• ¹⁹ Centre for Heart Diseases, Military Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland.
• ²⁰ Medtronic, Inc., Bakken Research Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
• ²¹ Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
• ²² Critical Care, Orion Pharma, Espoo, Finland.
• ²³ University Heart Centre, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ²⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
• ²⁵ Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA.
• ²⁶ Department of Cardiology, Belgrade University Medical Centre, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ²⁷ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ²⁸ Department of Biomedical Photonic Imaging, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.
• ²⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, Barts Heart Centre, London, UK.
• ³⁰ Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.
• ³¹ Department of Cardiology, Heart and Lungs Division, and Regenerative Medicine Centre, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• ³² INSERM, Centre for Clinical Investigation 9501, Unit 961, University Hospital Centre, Nancy, France.
• ³³ Department of Cardiology, Nancy University, University of the Lorraine, Nancy, France.
• ³⁴ Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• ³⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.