Value of Echocardiography in the Treatment of Patients With Acute Heart Failure

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) is a burden in pandemic medicine resulting in high mortality and morbidity. Because acute HF is a life-threatening event, its diagnosis and choice of optimal treatment are important to improve outcomes. Furthermore, understanding the cause and hemodynamics of acute HF is important in selecting the optimal treatment for these patients. Echocardiography is widely used in daily clinical practice because of its non-invasive nature and excellent portability to understand cardiac function and hemodynamics. Echocardiography is highly recommended by guidelines in the practice of HF, but evidence is limited. In this review, I would like to share clinical value of echocardiography in the treatment of patients with acute HF and discuss the usefulness of echocardiography.

Utilization of Transthoracic Echocardiography Is Associated with a Decreased 6-month Readmission Rate in Hospitalized Heart Failure: A Propensity Score-matched Analysis

“…[14] In a review of Nationwide Inpatient Sample registry data in the United States, only 7% of patients diagnosed with chronic HF at admission received TTE. [14] Furthermore, current clinical evidence on the use of TTE in acute HF is very limited, [16,17] especially in China. Therefore, in the present study, a HF database from Southwest China was analyzed to observe the relationship between the application of TTE and the rehospitalization rate of hospitalized patients with HF.…”