Diagnostic accuracy of emergency doppler echocardiography for identification of acute left ventricular heart failure in patients with acute dyspnea: Comparison with boston criteria and N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-26

  Nazerian, Peiman ^a   Vanni, Simone ^a   Zanobetti, Maurizio ^a   Polidori, Gianluca ^a   Pepe, Giuseppe ^a   Federico, Roberto ^a   Cangioli, Elisabetta ^a   Grifoni, Stefano ^a  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Natriuretic peptide

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 75449101014     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00630.x     Document Type: Article

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