Key result
Echocardiographic EF in acute heart failure correlates poorly with hemodynamic contractility and short-term outcomes.
Why the study?
Does echocardiographic ejection fraction correlate with hemodynamic, clinical, and neurohormonal measures and short-term outcome in patients with acute heart failure?
Population
343 patients with acute heart failure enrolled into two prospective placebo-controlled hemodynamic studies…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
short-term
Authors
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EF warrants cautious interpretation in acute HF; leaves open its reliability as a contractility or prognostic surrogate.
Observational (n=343)
Does echocardiographic ejection fraction correlate with hemodynamic, clinical, and neurohormonal measures and short-term outcome in patients with acute heart failure?
In acute heart failure, echocardiographic EF correlates weakly with hemodynamic measures of left ventricular contractility and short-term outcomes, suggesting it should be interpreted cautiously.
Uriel et al. (2005) conducted an observational in Acute heart failure (n=343). Echocardiographic ejection fraction was evaluated on Correlations with hemodynamic, clinical, and neurohormonal measures and short-term outcome. Echocardiographic ejection fraction in acute heart failure showed weak correlation with hemodynamic measures of contractility and no overall correlation with short-term outcome.
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