Cardiac ultrasound helps for differentiating the causes of acute dyspnea with available B-type natriuretic peptide tests

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 987-993

  Wang, Hsien Kuo ^a   Tsai, Min Shan ^b   Chang, Jia How ^c   Wang, Tzung Dau ^d   Chen, Wen Jone ^b,c   Huang, Chien Hua ^e  

^a MIN SHENG GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAOYUAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATININE;

ACUTE DYSPNEA; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 78049480482     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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