The limited prognostic role of echocardiograms in short-term follow-up after acute decompensated heart failure: An analysis of the Korean Heart Failure (KorHF) Registry.

The prognostic values of the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and end-diastolic dimension (LVEDD) have primarily been shown among patients with chronic heart failure (HF), with little representation of patients with acute HF (AHF). Therefore, we investigated the value of these echocardiogra...

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Main Authors: Sung Hea Kim, Hyun-Joong Kim, Seongwoo Han, Byung-Su Yoo, Dong-Ju Choi, Jae-Joong Kim, Eun-Seok Jeon, Myeong-Chan Cho, Shung Chull Chae, Kyu-Hyung Ryu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5736190?pdf=render