Avtor/Urednik		Ružič-Medvešček, Nadja
Naslov		New echocardiographic challenges in the diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy in heart failure
Tip		članek
Vir		In: Štiblar-Martinčič D, Petrovič D, editors. Cardiovascular diseases. Proceedings of the 32nd memorial meeting devoted to professor Janez Plečnik, International symposium in memory of professor Rene Favaloro; 2001 Dec 6-8; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Medical faculty,
Leto izdaje		2001
Obseg		str. 55-9
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		The diagnosis of heart failure in clinical practice on the basis of symptoms and signs is rather difficult, because they are nonspecific. No clinical feature orphysical examination finding reliably distinguishes patients with heart failure who have intact left ventricular systolic function from those with heart failure caused by left ventricular systolic dysfunction. The diagnosis of overt heart failure and asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction depends on the measurement of LUEF by echocardiography. The use of LUEF measurements to diagnose heart failure has inherent problems. The LUEF varies in normal population. Besides, it depends on preload and afterload. The problem is even greater in heart failure and ventricular dysfunction due to diastolic dysfunction, because there is no universally accepted criteria for diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction. In both cases, determination of natriuretic peptides may be promising.
Deskriptorji		HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY PROGNOSIS VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT