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Echocardiographic subtypes of heart failure in consecutive hospitalised patients with dyspnoea.

Olav Wendelboe NielsenNana ValeurAhmad SajadiehAndreas Fabricius-BjerreChristian Malchau CarlsenLars Kober
Published in: Open heart (2019)
HF according to contemporary criteria applied to 90% of patients admitted with dyspnoea and elevated NT-proBNP irrespective of the presumptive cause of dyspnoea, of whom 10% had HFmrEF and 41% HFpEF. However, significant non-cardiac diagnoses related to 9 out of 10 with HFpEF with pulmonary disease as the predominant adjudicated problem.
Keyphrases
  • left ventricular
  • heart failure
  • pulmonary hypertension
  • acute heart failure
  • mitral valve
  • cardiac resynchronization therapy
  • left atrial
  • ejection fraction
  • community acquired pneumonia