Summary
Timely evaluation of patients presenting with symptoms of acute heart failure is crucial to making a prompt diagnosis and selecting appropriate therapeutic measures. Using echocardiography, the clinician can quickly and noninvasively obtain information about the causal condition, critical hemodynamic factors, and the etiology of lung congestion.
- heart failure
- left ventricular dysfunction
- regurgitation
- hemodynamic assessment
- lung congestion
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