Echocardiographic predictors of worsening renal function in acute heart failure: observations from the RASHF registry.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Echocardiography is known as the most useful diagnostic test in the assessment of patients with heart failure (HF), and the prognostic significance of echocardiographic findings in HF is well known. In this report, we aim to present the prognostic significance of a limited set of echocardiographic parameters obtained within 24 h of admission of patients enrolled in the Rajaie Acute Systolic Heart Failure registry.

Methods and results

A total of 230 patients with the diagnosis of acute systolic HF (left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 35%) were enrolled into the study. Transthoracic echocardiography was performed for all study population within 24 h of admission. The primary endpoint of the study was the occurrence of worsening renal function (WRF) during the hospitaliza

SUBMITTER: Soltani MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6300822 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature