Population
120 consecutive patients with clinical and radiographic evidence of uncomplicated congestive heart failure…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Supports symmetric pleural effusions in heart failure; hypothesis-generating and should not yet alter evaluation thresholds.
Left-sided pleural effusion is not an atypical finding in uncomplicated congestive heart failure and does not inherently require further evaluation.
John H. Woodring (2005) studied this question.
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