Improved cardiac and venous pressures during hospital stay in patients with acute heart failure: an echocardiography and biomarkers study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Changes in echocardiographic parameters and biomarkers of cardiac and venous pressures or estimated plasma volume during hospitalization associated with decongestive treatments in acute heart failure (AHF) patients with either preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (HFPEF) or reduced LVEF (HFREF) are poorly assessed.

Methods and results

From the metabolic road to diastolic heart failure: diastolic heart failure (MEDIA-DHF) study, 111 patients were included in this substudy: 77 AHF (43 HFPEF and 34 HFREF) and 34 non-cardiac dyspnea patients. Echocardiographic measurements and blood samples were obtained within 4 h of presentation at the emergency department and before hospital discharge. In AHF patients, echocardiographic indices of cardiac and venous pressu

SUBMITTER: Akiyama E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7261539 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature