ArticleCritical care explorations2020
Doppler Interrogation of the Femoral Vein in the Critically Ill Patient: The Fastest Potential Acoustic Window to Diagnose Right Ventricular Dysfunction?
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- Common femoral vein Doppler as an adjunct for serial assessment of right ventricular dysfunction after lung transplantation.JHLT open · 2026Article
- Venous excess doppler ultrasound: What radiologists should know in 2026.World journal of radiology · 2026Review
- Extended venous excess ultrasound: A promising addition to point-of-care ultrasound-based venous congestion assessment.World journal of cardiology · 2026Review
- Femoral vein Doppler ultrasound for assessing venous congestion and right heart function: a scoping review.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2026Review
- Venous congestion in critical care: combining VExUS, lung ultrasound, and echocardiography.Annals of intensive care · 2026Article
- Fluid tolerance in septic shock: Femoral vein pulsatility versus VExUS score in a cross-sectional study.The Southern African journal of critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Society · 2026Article
- Dual doppler dynamics: integrating femoral venous doppler and VExUS for predicting organ dysfunction in acute heart failure.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2025Article
- Femoral venous stasis index predicts elevated right atrial pressure and mortality in pulmonary hypertension.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- Prevalence of abnormal common femoral vein pulsatility on Doppler ultrasound in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and its association with adverse events: a prospective cohort study.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2025Observational
- [Role of ultrasound in critically ill patients with heart failure]Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2025Review
- VExUS Protocol Along Cardiorenal Syndrome: An Updated Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Femoral Vein Doppler for Guiding Ultrafiltration in End-Stage Renal Disease: A Novel Addition to Bedside Ultrasound.CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Optimization of kidney function in cardiac surgery patients with intra-abdominal hypertension: expert opinion.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2024Review
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- The Cardiac Pulsed Wave Doppler Pattern of the Common Femoral Vein in Diagnosing the Likelihood of Severe Pulmonary Hypertension: Results from a Prospective Multicentric Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The Importance of Venous Reflux Status Evaluation in the Intensive Care Unit.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- Prognostic value of Doppler waveform analysis of common femoral vein in septic patients: a prospective cohort study.Journal of ultrasound · 2023Article
- Femoral vein pulsatility: a simple tool for venous congestion assessment.The ultrasound journal · 2023Article
- Nephrologist-performed point-of-care venous excess Doppler ultrasound (VExUS) in the management of acute kidney injury.Journal of ultrasound · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo report the use of common femoral vein Doppler interrogation as a simple technique to diagnose right ventricular dysfunction.
designCase report.
settingCardiac surgical ICU. PATIENTS: Postoperative cardiac surgical patients.
interventionsCommon femoral pulsed-wave and color Doppler examination associated with hepatic, portal, and renal venous Doppler measurement were obtained in both patients and before and after treatment in patient number 1. In addition, right ventricular pressure waveform examination was obtained in patient number 2. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsThe technique to obtain common femoral venous Doppler is described. Two cases of patients presenting with right ventricular dysfunction and fluid overload with portal and renal venous congestion in the perioperative period undergoing complex multivalvular cardiac surgery are presented. Hemodynamic waveform monitoring was performed alongside echocardiographic, hepatic, and renal venous flow Doppler assessment, and spectral Doppler profiles of the common femoral veins were examined. Those findings were useful in confirming our diagnosis and guiding our response to treatment. An algorithm was developed and tested on two additional hemodynamically unstable patients.
conclusionsDoppler examination of the common femoral vein is a simple, fast, and noninvasive technique that could be useful to rule in the presence of right ventricular dysfunction with venous congestion and help guide the management of such patients.
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