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Estimation of Right Atrial Pressure by Ultrasound-Assessed Jugular Vein Distensibility in Patients With Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Clinical evaluation of central venous pressure is difficult, depends on experience, and is often inaccurate in patients with chronic advanced heart failure. 0.84]) and confirmed in the validation cohort (receiver operating characteristic, 0.82 [95% CI, 0.73–0.92]).

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Enhancing the Prediction of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Using Intravascular Ultrasound and Machine Learning: A Proof of Concept

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is the leading cause of late graft dysfunction in heart transplantation.

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Why You Probably Already Have Heart Disease But Just Don't Know It.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The prevalence of smoking back in the 1950s would have been much higher, but even recent studies on ‘healthy’ heart transplant donors who died from events such as road traffic accidents still show high rates of very early-stage plaque buildup 4. Circulation. Circulation. Am J Cardiol. 2006 Jan 3;113(1):30-7.

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A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

My bedside ultrasound was of insufficient quality, but showed somewhat reduced overall EF, distended IVC without respiratory variation, no pericardial effusion, and diffuse bilateral B lines. == What do you think of her ECG? J Electrocardiol, 42 (2009), pp.