Usefulness of bedside tissue Doppler echocardiography and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in differentiating congestive heart failure from noncardiac cause of acute dyspnea in elderly patients with a normal left ventricular ejection fraction and permanent, nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: Insights from a prospective, monocenter study

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 499-507

  Arques, Stephane ^a   Roux, Emmanuel ^a   Sbragia, Pascal ^a   Pieri, Bertrand ^a   Gelisse, Richard ^a   Luccioni, Roger ^b   Ambrosi, Pierre ^b  

^a Aubagne Hospital   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; B type natriuretic peptide; Congestive heart failure; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34247394688     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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