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ArticleJournal of cardiovascular echography

Noninvasive Monitoring of Cardiac Output: A Useful Tool Yet?

Righab Hamdan, Fida Charif, Ali Zein, Mohamad Issa, Claudette Najjar, Hadi Abdallah, Saleh Fakih, Mohamad Saab

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Article in Journal of cardiovascular echography. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Righab HamdanDepartment of Cardiology, Beirut Cardiac Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Fida CharifIntensive Care Unit, Beirut Cardiac Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ali ZeinDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Beirut Cardiac Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Mohamad IssaDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Beirut Cardiac Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Claudette NajjarIntensive Care Unit, Beirut Cardiac Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Hadi AbdallahAmerican Community School, Beirut, Lebanon.
Saleh FakihDepartment of Cardiology, Beirut Cardiac Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Mohamad SaabDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Beirut Cardiac Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Orient-Institut Beirut · LBAmerican University of Beirut · LB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

aimEnd-stage heart failure (HF) patients are at high risk for mortality and morbidity. We aimed to study the role of cardiac output (CO) assessed by Doppler as a noninvasive tool, to predict mortality, rehospitalization rate, and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation at 6 months. METHODS AND

resultsWe retrospectively analyzed the data of 60 patients with end-stage HF from different etiologies and an LV ejection fraction ≤20%. Patients were divided into two groups, according to the cardiac index (CI) measured by cardiac ultrasound and Doppler - Group 1: low CO or CI <2 l/min/m

conclusionCI measured noninvasively by cardiac ultrasound is a simple and useful tool in HF patients' risk stratification and in predicting prognosis and outcome.

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Cardiac outputheart failureleft ventricular assist devicemortality

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PMID32089996
PMCPMC7011496
OpenAlexW3003887171

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