title: [Role of echocardiography in the tailored follow-up of outpatients with chronic heart failure].
abstract: Although a huge number of papers have been published on echocardiography in heart failure, there is no expert consensus on how the ultrasound evaluation can really improve the management of heart failure patients. The only way to reach this goal is to have echocardiographers knowing which echo information are relevant for the clinicians who treat heart failure patients and to have clinicians becoming familiar with the interpretation of the echocardiographic examination.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Cardiologia Riabilitativa, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Torino. pierluigi.temporelli@fsm.it
authors.forename: Pier Luigi
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Temporelli
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cioffi
authors.forename: Frank L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Dini
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghio
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004452:Echocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D010045:Outpatients; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity