Prognostic significance of spleen shear wave elastography and dispersion in patients with heart failure: the crucial role of cardio-splenic axis.

Tomofumi MisakaAkiomi YoshihisaYasuhiro IchijoShinji IshibashiMitsuko MatsudaYukio YamaderaHimika OharaYukiko SugawaraFumiya AnzaiYu SatoSatoshi AbeTakamasa SatoMasayoshi OikawaAtsushi KobayashiYasuchika Takeishi

Published in: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society (2023)

Share wave imaging of the spleen is useful for stratifying the prognosis of HF patients and may suggest a role of the cardio-splenic axis in HF pathogenies.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
high resolution
prognostic factors
acute heart failure
patient reported outcomes
atrial fibrillation