ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2025
Integrative assessment of congestion in heart failure using ultrasound imaging.
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- Rethinking Congestion in Heart Failure from Volume Overload to Venous Pressure and Organ Disfunction with VExUS.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- The fluid paradox: dissociation between clinical and ultrasound parameters of fluid overload - results of the INCIVEX exploratory study.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2026Observational
- Assessment of Congestion in Heart Failure Using VExUS: Current Evidence, Limitations and Clinical Perspectives.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Acute Kidney Injury in Acute Heart Failure Revisited: Marker of Cardiorenal Disease Severity Rather Than Isolated Renal Injury.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Prognostic value of jugular, pulmonary and inferior vena cava ultrasound in decompensated heart failure in primary care.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2026Article
- Assessing congestion in heart failure: tools are already available, but integration is key.Heart failure reviews · 2026Review
- Prognostic Impact of Combinational Elastography in Patients with Heart Failure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Advanced right ventricular evaluation in pulmonary hypertension: the role of 3D echocardiography and strain analysis.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026Article
- Clinical factors associated with 30-day heart failure readmission in patients with acute decompensated heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence-based characterization of multi-organ ultrasound congestion across the heart failure Spectrum.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026Review
- Lung ultrasound guided management in chronic heart failure: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026Article
- Advancing Cardiovascular Risk Stratification and Functional Assessment: A Narrative Review of CPET and ESE Applications.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Circulating mitochondrial DNA signature in cardiometabolic patients.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Article
- The Role of Lung Ultrasound Scan in Different Heart Failure Scenarios: Current Applications and Lacks of Evidences.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Echocardiography in the Assessment of Heart Failure Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
In heart failure (HF), congestion is a key pathophysiologic hallmark and a major contributor to morbidity and mortality. However, the presence of congestion is often overlooked in both acute and chronic settings, particularly when it is not clinically evident, which can have important clinical consequences. Ultrasound (US) is a widely available, non-invasive, sensitive tool that might enable clinicians to detect and quantify the presence of (subclinical) congestion in different organs and tissues and guide therapeutic strategies. In particular, left ventricular filling pressures and pulmonary pressures can be estimated using transthoracic echocardiography; extravascular lung water accumulation can be evaluated by lung US; finally, systemic venous congestion can be assessed at the level of the inferior vena cava or internal jugular vein. The Doppler evaluation of renal, hepatic and portal venous flow can provide additional valuable information. This review aims to describe US techniques allowing multi-organ evaluation of congestion, underlining their role in detecting, monitoring, and treating volume overload more objectively.
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