Pivotal role of bedside Doppler echocardiography in the assessment of patients with acute heart failure and mitral regurgitation.
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.
Ennezat
Pierre Vladimir
PV
Hôpital Cardiologique, Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de Lille, Lille, France. ennezat@yahoo.com
Bellouin
Annaïk
A
Maréchaux
Sylvestre
S
Juthier
Francis
F
Fayad
Georges
G
Vincentelli
André
A
Berrébi
Alain
A
Auffray
Jean Luc
JL
Bauchart
Jean Jacques
JJ
Mouquet
Frédéric
F
Montaigne
David
D
Asseman
Philippe
P
Le Jemtel
Thierry H
TH
Pibarot
Philippe
P
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*