Usefulness of clinical variables, echocardiography, and levels of brain natriuretic peptide and norepinephrine to distinguish systolic and diastolic causes of acute heart failure.
Vinch
Craig S
CS
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA.
Aurigemma
Gerard P
GP
Hill
Jeffrey C
JC
Gaasch
William H
WH
Volturo
Gregory
G
Tighe
Dennis A
DA
Meyer
Theo E
TE
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003971:Diastole; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020097:Natriuretic Peptide, Brain / Q000097:blood*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000097:blood*; D012016:Reference Values; D013318:Stroke Volume; D013599:Systole
D020097:Natriuretic Peptide, Brain; D009638:Norepinephrine