title: Pivotal role of bedside Doppler echocardiography in the assessment of patients with acute heart failure and mitral regurgitation.
abstract: Patients presenting with mitral regurgitation and acute heart failure remain a challenge for the clinicians. Bedside echocardiography ascertains the functional or primary nature of mitral regurgitation, thereby allowing to focus therapy on the left ventricle and mitral valve apparatus in patients with functional mitral regurgitation and to hasten mitral valve repair or replacement when acute heart failure results from primary mitral regurgitation. This short article reviews the evaluation by bedside echocardiography to guide management of these patients.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Cardiologique, Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de Lille, Lille, France. ennezat@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Pierre Vladimir
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Ennezat
authors.forename: Annaïk
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bellouin
authors.forename: Sylvestre
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maréchaux
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Juthier
authors.forename: Georges
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fayad
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vincentelli
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berrébi
authors.forename: Jean Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Auffray
authors.forename: Jean Jacques
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bauchart
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mouquet
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Montaigne
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Asseman
authors.forename: Thierry H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Le Jemtel
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pibarot
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*