Ultrasound Pleural Effusion Sign as a Useful Marker for Identifying Heart Failure Worsening in Established Heart Failure Patients During Follow-Up

Congestive Heart Failure

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 272-277

  Kataoka, Hajime ^a  

^a The Division of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; ODDS RATIO; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866548367     PISSN: 15275299     EISSN: 17517133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2012.00285.x     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Vinson JM, Rich MW, Sperry JC, et al. Early readmission of elderly patients with congestive heart failure. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1990;38:1290-1295.
2. Krumholz HM, Parent EM, Tu N, et al. Readmission after hospitalization for congestive heart failure among Medicare beneficiaries. Arch Intern Med. 1997;157:99-104.
3. Fonarow GC, Abraham WT, Albert NM, et al. Factors identified as precipitating hospital admissions for heart failure and clinical outcomes: findings from OPTIMIZE-HF. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168:847-854.
4. Setoguchi S, Stevenson LW, Schneeweiss S. Repeated hospitalizations predict mortality in the community population with heart failure. Am Heart J. 2007;154:260-266.
5. Solomon SD, Dobson J, Pocock S, et al. Influence of nonfatal hospitalization for heart failure on subsequent mortality in patients with chronic heart failure. Circulation 2007;116:1482-1487.
6. Gheorghiade M, Filippatos G, De Luca L, et al. Congestion in acute heart failure syndromes: an essential target of evaluation and treatment. Am J Med. 2006;119(suppl 1):S3-S10.
7. Stevenson LW, Perloff JK. The limited reliability of physical signs for estimating hemodynamics in chronic heart failure. JAMA. 1989;261:884-888.
8. Tresch DD. The clinical diagnosis of heart failure in older patients. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1997;45:1128-1133.
9. Rohde LE, Beck-da-Silva L, Goldraich L, et al. Reliability and prognostic value of traditional signs and symptoms in outpatients with congestive heart failure. Can J Cardiol. 2004;20:697-702.
10. Ahmed A, Allman RM, Aronow WS, et al. Diagnosis of heart failure in older adults: predictive value of dyspnea at rest. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2004;38:297-307.
11. Fonseca C, Morais H, Mota T, et al. The diagnosis of heart failure in primary care: value of symptoms and signs. Eur J Heart Fail. 2004;6:795-800.
12. Gadsbøll N, Høilund-Carlsen PF, Nielsen GG, et al. Symptoms and signs of heart failure in patients with myocardial infarction: reproducibility and relationship to chest X-ray, radionuclide ventriculography and right heart catheterization. Eur Heart J. 1989;10:1017-1028.
13. Chakko S, Woska D, Martinez H, et al. Clinical, radiographic, and hemodynamic correlations in chronic congestive heart failure: conflicting results may lead to inappropriate care. Am J Med. 1991;90:353-359.
14. Knudsen CW, Omland T, Clopton P, et al. Diagnostic value of B-type natriuretic peptide and chest radiographic findings in patients with acute dyspnea. Am J Med. 2004;116:363-368.
15. Goldberg RJ, Spencer FA, Szklo-Coxe M, et al. Symptom presentation in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure. Clin Cardiol. 2010;33:E73-E80.
16. Mahdyoon H, Klein R, Eyler W, et al. Radiographic pulmonary congestion in end-stage congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 1989;63:625-627.
17. Collins SP, Lindsell CJ, Storrow AB, et al. Prevalence of negative chest radiography results in the emergency department patient with decompensated heart failure. Ann Emerg Med. 2006;47:13-18.
18. Troughton RW, Frampton CM, Yandle TG, et al. Treatment of heart failure guided by plasma aminoterminal brain natriuretic peptide (N-BNP) concentrations. Lancet. 2000;355:1126-1130.
19. Tang WHW, Girod JP, Lee MJ, et al. Plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels in ambulatory patients with established chronic symptomatic systolic heart failure. Circulation. 2003;108:2964-2966.
20. Kataoka H. Relation of body fluid status to B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients with chronic heart failure during long-term follow-up. Clin Cardiol. 2006;29:457-461.
21. Kohan JM, Poe RH, Israel RH, et al. Value of chest ultrasonography versus decubitus roentgenography for thoracentesis. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1986;133:1124-1126.
22. Kataoka H, Takada S. The role of thoracic ultrasonography for evaluation of patients with decompensated chronic heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000;35:1638-1646.
23. Zanobetti M, Poggioni C, Pini R. Can chest ultrasonography substitute standard chest radiography for evaluation of acute dyspnea in the emergency department? Chest. 2011;139:1140-1147.
24. Kataoka H. Utility of thoracic sonography for follow-up examination of chronic heart failure patients with previous decompensation. Clin Cardiol. 2007;30:336-341.
25. Kataoka H. A new monitoring method for the estimation of body fluid status by digital weight scale incorporating bioelectrical impedance analyzer in definite heart failure patients. J Card Fail. 2009;15:410-418.
26. Takeda Y, Takeda Y, Suzuki S, et al. Within-person variation of the plasma concentration of B-type natriuretic peptide: safety range in stable patients with heart failure. Am Heart J. 2009;157:97-101.
27. Kataoka H, Matsuno O. Age-related pulmonary crackles (rales) in asymptomatic cardiovascular patients. Ann Fam Med. 2008;6:239-245.
28. Grinstead WC, Francis MJ, Marks GF, et al. Discontinuation of chronic diuretic therapy in stable congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease or to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol. 1994;73:881-886.
29. Tsai TH, Jerng JS, Yang PC. Clinical applications of transthoracic ultrasound in chest medicine. J Med Ultrasound. 2008;16:7e25.
30. Szidon JP, Pietra GG, Fishman AP. The alveolar-capillary membrane and pulmonary edema. N Engl J Med. 1972;286:1200-1204.
31. Kataoka H. Novel monitoring method for management of heart failure: combined measurement of body weight and bioimpedance index of body fat percentage. Future Cardiol. 2009;5:541-546.
32. Yu CM, Wang L, Chau E, et al. Intrathoracic impedance monitoring in patients with heart failure: correlation with fluid status and feasibility of early warning preceding hospitalization. Circulation. 2005;112:841-848.
33. Packer M, Abraham WT, Mehra MR, et al. Utility of impedance cardiography for the identification of short-term risk of clinical decompensation in stable patients with chronic heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;47:2245-2252.
34. Roelandt JRTC. Ultrasound stethoscopy: a renaissance of the physical examination? Heart. 2003;89:971-974.
35. Vignon P, Chastagner C, Berkane V, et al. Quantitative assessment of pleural effusion in critically ill patients by means of ultrasonography. Crit Care Med. 2005;33:1757-1763.
36. Jones AE, Kline JA. Pleural effusions in the critically ill: the evolving role of bedside ultrasound. Crit Care Med. 2005;33:1874-1875.
37. Golshan M, Faghihi M, Ghanbarian K, et al. Common causes of pleural effusion in referral hospital in Isfahan, Iran 1997-1998. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2002;10:43-46.
38. Porcel JM, Vives M. Etiology and pleural fluid characteristics of large and massive effusions. Chest. 2003;124:978-983.
39. Tang WHW, Francis GS. The difficult task of evaluating how to monitor patients with heart failure. J Card Fail. 2005;11:422-424.
40. Lichtenstein D, Mezière G. A lung ultrasound sign allowing bedside distinction between pulmonary edema and COPD: the comet-tail artifact. Intensive Care Med. 1998;24:1331-1334.
41. Lichtenstein D, Goldstein I, Mourgeon E, et al. Comparative diagnostic performances of auscultation, chest radiography, and lung ultrasonography in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Anesthesiology. 2004;100:9-15.
42. Jambrik Z, Monti S, Coppola V, et al. Usefulness of ultrasound lung comets as a nonradiologic sign of extravascular lung water. Am J Cardiol. 2004;93:1265-1270.