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Clinical significance of spleen stiffness in patients with acute decompensated heart failure

AIMS: Congestive splenomegaly is a classic sign of organ congestion in acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Shear wave elastography (SWE) allows the measurement of spleen stiffness (SS). We hypothesized that SS could quantify the severity of splenic congestion and predict adverse events in ADHF...

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Autores principales: Saito, Yuki, Matsumoto, Naoki, Aizawa, Yoshihiro, Fukamachi, Daisuke, Kitano, Daisuke, Kazuto, Toyama, Tamaki, Takehiro, Fujito, Hidesato, Sezai, Akira, Okumura, Yasuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7754734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32924272
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13001