Echocardiographic and lung ultrasound characteristics in ambulatory patients with dyspnea or prior heart failure

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 133-139

  Platz, Elke ^a   Hempel, Dorothea ^b   Pivetta, Emanuele ^a   Rivero, Jose ^a   Solomon, Scott D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Lung ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; LUNG ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRAVASCULAR LUNG WATER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84896776292     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12346     Document Type: Article

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