The Role of the Clinical Examination in Patients With Heart Failure

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 543-551

  Thibodeau, Jennifer T ^a   Drazner, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bendopnea; clinical examination; hemodynamics; jugular venous pressure; prognosis

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; NATRIURETIC FACTOR;

BENDOPNEA; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPNEA; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; PERFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VALSALVA MANEUVER; ANAMNESIS; BLOOD VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; JUGULAR VEIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SUPINE POSITION; VENOUS PRESSURE;

BLOOD VOLUME; DYSPNEA; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; SUPINE POSITION; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 85047734304     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2018.04.005     Document Type: Review

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