Why the study?
Does bedside echocardiographic measurement of mitral valve movements accurately estimate LVEF compared to comprehensive echocardiography in adult patients with dyspnea?
Population
118 adult patients whose principal symptom was dyspnea
Comparison
Bedside echocardiographic measurement of mitral… vs Comprehensive echocardiography performed by an…
Design
Cohort
Authors
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May aid bedside LVEF estimation in dyspnea; hypothesis-generating pending prospective validation.
Does bedside echocardiographic measurement of mitral valve movements accurately estimate LVEF compared to comprehensive echocardiography in adult patients with dyspnea?
Bedside echocardiographic measurements of mitral valve movements are highly correlated with LVEF and can accurately exclude reduced LVEF in dyspneic patients.
Siliv et al. (2018) studied this question.