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Echocardiography provides a prompt, reliable diagnosis of acute severe aortic regurgitation, overcoming clinical difficulties and obviating the need for invasive studies.
Echocardiography allows for prompt and reliable non-invasive diagnosis of acute severe aortic regurgitation.
May aid diagnosis of acute severe AR; leaves open need for prospective validation before changing practice.
• Acute, severe aortic regurgitation is usually a life-threatening cardiac emergency that often requires urgent aortic valve replacement. A prompt, reliable, and painless diagnosis by echocardiography has overridden the difficulties in clinical recognition and has obviated the need for invasive studies. Herein, two representative cases are reported. (Arch Intern Med1982;142:1625-1628)
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Shashi K. Agarwal (1982) studied this question. Echocardiography provides a prompt, reliable diagnosis of acute severe aortic regurgitation, overcoming clinical difficulties and obviating the need for invasive studies.
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