ReviewCureus2023
Systemic Venous Congestion Reviewed.
Review in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07438015 (VEXUS-REA), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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The trial behind it
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VEXUS-REA : Evaluation of Ultrasound Parameters of Venous Congestion in Patients in a Medical Intensive Care Unit
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Utilizing bedside VExUS and the S-prime velocity for real-time assessment of venous congestion on right ventricular function in heart failure.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2026Article
- Evaluation of a modified venous excess ultrasound (VExUS) protocol for estimation of venous congestion: a cohort study.The ultrasound journal · 2025Article
- Construction of a right ventricular function assessment model in patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation based on VExUS grading and the classification and regression tree algorithm.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- The utility of point-of-care ultrasound in critical care nephrology.Frontiers in nephrology · 2024Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Accurate determination of intravascular volume status is challenging in acutely ill patients. Favorable patient outcome is vital to correctly identify intravascular volume depletion and avoid systemic venous congestion. Most of the conventional means of hemodynamic monitoring in the acute healthcare setting are geared toward addressing the cardiac output and maintaining an optimum mean arterial pressure. While assessing and maintaining cardiac output in an acutely ill patient is very important, a venous congestion cascade is often overlooked, which can negatively affect the intraabdominal end organs. The prospect of using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to determine systemic venous congestion could be a potentially handy tool for clinicians. Venous excess ultrasound score (VExUS) has also been utilized by clinicians as a semi-quantitative assessment tool to assess fluid status. This review aims to discuss the potential role of POCUS and VExUS scores in determining systemic venous congestion through a narrative review of recently published literature.
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