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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Gerasimos Filippatos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with significant contributions in the subfields of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Epidemiology.

Their research focuses on several main topics, including Heart Failure Treatment and Management, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Diabetes Treatment and Management, Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension, Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, Pancreatic function and diabetes, and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies.

The scientist has contributed frequently to several prestigious publication venues. These include:

  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • European Heart Journal
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • ESC Heart Failure

Recent papers associated with this researcher include:

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure (2021, European Heart Journal)
  • Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure (2021, European Journal of Heart Failure)
  • SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: a meta-analysis of the EMPEROR-Reduced and DAPA-HF trials (2020, The Lancet)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gerasimos Filippatos include:

  • Stefan D. Anker
  • Marco Metra
  • Piotr Ponikowski
  • Faïez Zannad
  • Javed Butler

Best Publications

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

    Piotr Ponikowski;Adriaan A. Voors;Stefan D. Anker;Héctor Bueno

  • 2007 Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

    Giuseppe Mancia;Guy De Backer;Anna Dominiczak;Renata Cifkova

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS

    Paulus Kirchhof;Stefano Benussi;Dipak Kotecha;Anders Ahlsson

  • 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

    Gerhard Hindricks;Tatjana Potpara;Nikolaos Dagres;Elena Arbelo

  • ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012

    John J.V. McMurray;Stamatis Adamopoulos;Stefan D. Anker;Angelo Auricchio

  • 2014 ESC/EACTS guidelines on myocardial revascularization.

    Stephan Windecker;Philippe Kolh;Fernando Alfonso;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: the Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA) and endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).

    Kenneth Dickstein;Alain Cohen-Solal;Gerasimos Filippatos;John J V McMurray

  • Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

    Adam Torbicki;Arnaud Perrier;Stavros Konstantinides;Giancarlo Agnelli

  • 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Failure Society of America

    Clyde W. Yancy;Mariell Jessup;Biykem Bozkurt;Javed Butler

  • 2014 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization: The Task Force on Myocardial Revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)Developed with the special contribution of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI).

    Stephan Windecker;Philippe Kolh;Fernando Alfonso;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • Universal definition of myocardial infarction.

    Kristian Thygesen;Joseph S. Alpert;Harvey D. White;Allan S. Jaffe

  • 2019 ESC Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD

    Francesco Cosentino;Peter J Grant;Victor Aboyans;Clifford J Bailey

  • Management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with persistent ST-segment elevation: the Task Force on the Management of ST-Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Frans Van de Werf;Jeroen Bax;Amadeo Betriu;Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist

  • Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease The Task Force on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology

    Alec Vahanian;Helmut Baumgartner;Jeroen Bax;Eric Butchart

  • Ferric Carboxymaltose in Patients with Heart Failure and Iron Deficiency.

    Stefan D. Anker;Josep Comin Colet;Gerasimos Filippatos;Ronnie Willenheimer

  • ESC Guidelines for the management of grown-up congenital heart disease (new version 2010).

    Helmut Baumgartner;Philipp Bonhoeffer;Natasja M. S. De Groot;Fokko de Haan

  • Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

    A. John Camm;Paulus Kirchhof;Gregory Y H Lip;Ulrich Schotten

  • Effect of Finerenone on Chronic Kidney Disease Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes

    George L Bakris;Rajiv Agarwal;Stefan D Anker;Bertram Pitt

  • 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure

    Clyde W. Yancy;Mariell Jessup;Biykem Bozkurt;Javed Butler

  • Guidelines on the Management of Valvular Heart disease (Version 2012)

    Alec Vahanian;Ottavio Alfieri;Felicita Andreotti;Manuel J. Antunes

Frequent Co-Authors

Piotr Ponikowski
Piotr Ponikowski Wrocław Medical University
Marco Metra
Marco Metra University of Brescia
Kenneth Dickstein
Kenneth Dickstein University of Bergen
Adriaan A. Voors
Adriaan A. Voors University Medical Center Groningen
John G.F. Cleland
John G.F. Cleland University of Glasgow
Faiez Zannad
Faiez Zannad University of Lorraine
John R. Teerlink
John R. Teerlink University of California, San Francisco
Frank Ruschitzka
Frank Ruschitzka University of Zurich
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen University Medical Center Groningen

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