Inferior vena cava diameter in acute decompensated heart failure as predictor of all-cause mortality

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 856-864

  Jobs, Alexander ^a,b   Brünjes, Kerstin ^a   Katalinic, Alexander ^c   Babaev, Valentin ^c   Desch, Steffen ^a,b   Reppel, Michael ^a   Thiele, Holger ^a,b  

^a University Heart Center Lübeck   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute decompensated heart failure; Congestion; Heart failure; Inferior vena cava; Prognosis; Renal insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VEIN DILATATION; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERMANY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMARKERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 85010777985     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-017-0944-0     Document Type: Article

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