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- Title
Pivotal Role of Bedside Doppler Echocardiography in the Assessment of Patients with Acute Heart Failure and Mitral Regurgitation.
- Authors
Ennezat, Pierre Vladimir; Bellouin, Annaïk; Maréchaux, Sylvestre; Juthier, Francis; Fayad, Georges; Vincentelli, André; Berrébi, Alain; Auffray, Jean Luc; Bauchart, Jean Jacques; Mouquet, Frédéric; Montaigne, David; Asseman, Philippe; Le Jemtel, Thierry H.; Pibarot, Philippe
- Abstract
Patients presenting with mitral regurgitation and acute heart failure remain a challenge for the clinicians. Bedside echocardiography ascertains the functional or primary nature of mitral regurgitation, thereby allowing to focus therapy on the left ventricle and mitral valve apparatus in patients with functional mitral regurgitation and to hasten mitral valve repair or replacement when acute heart failure results from primary mitral regurgitation. This short article reviews the evaluation by bedside echocardiography to guide management of these patients. Copyright © 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
HEART diseases; CONGESTIVE heart failure; HEART failure; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MITRAL valve insufficiency; LEFT heart ventricle; MITRAL valve
- Publication
Cardiology, 2009, Vol 113, Issue 4, p249
- ISSN
0008-6312
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000203643