Today we have more evidence that #VExUS (and not RAP) might be the optimal tool for studying congestive organ injury!

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IRF after diuretics means these patients had congestive nephropathy!

The study shows that right heart catheterization is not useful to diagnose this condition. Only echocardiographic markers of RV and RA dilation, Tricuspid regurgitation and IVC size were associated with this phenotype!

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Honored to lecture at the Hemodynamic Monitoring and Tissue Perfusion Course in 🇨🇱

As I was preparing the lecture, I ran into this beautiful paper detailing the hemodynamic characteristics of heart failure patients with improving renal function (IRF) after diuresis:

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My thoughts on this back in 2021

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38061346/

And 👇