Expert consensus document: Echocardiography and lung ultrasonography for the assessment and management of acute heart failure

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 427-440

  Price, Susanna ^a   Platz, Elke ^b   Cullen, Louise ^c   Tavazzi, Guido ^d   Christ, Michael ^e   Cowie, Martin R ^a   Maisel, Alan S ^f   Masip, Josep ^g   Miro, Oscar ^h   McMurray, John J ⁱ   Peacock, W Frank ^j   Martin Sanchez, F Javier ^k   Di Somma, Salvatore ^l   Bueno, Hector ^m   Zeymer, Uwe ⁿ   Mueller, Christian ^o  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^f VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^j BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^l SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^m HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

ⁿ KLINIKUM LUDWIGSHAFEN   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOT PRESSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEART FAILURE; LUNG; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

CONSENSUS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LUNG; PROGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85018265374     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2017.56     Document Type: Article

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