Abstract:Background
In the ESC guidelines for chronic heart failure an electrocardiogram (ECG) is part of the diagnostic set-up (1).
A normal ECG makes the diagnosis unlikely. But can a normal ECG exclude heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF) and be a gatekeeper to echocardiography?
Methods
Patients referred from primary care to the cardiac outpatient clinic with suspicion of heart fai… Show more
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