Heart failure is a common cardiac condition that carries a substantial risk of morbidity
and mortality despite advances in management. Echocardiography plays a central role
in its diagnosis, elucidation of mechanisms, and detailed hemodynamic analysis. In
this E-Challenge, the authors review a few transthoracic echocardiographic findings
that yield insights into the hemodynamics.
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Published online: January 05, 2023
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- PreviewNāḍīparīkṣā (नाडीपरीक्षा), the ancient medical science of detecting early signs of disease based on palpation of the radial artery, was mentioned nearly a millennia ago in the Ayurvedic treatise in Sharangadhara Samhita.1 Nadipariksa is still widely practiced today in India and Nepal. Interpreting a patient's pulse is no less important to practitioners of “Western” medicine. For example, the clinical significance of pulsus paradoxus is clear to all of us. In the operating room, plethysmography, arterial lines, right- and left-heart catheters, esophageal Doppler, and echocardiography are all different ways of capturing and measuring a patient's pulse that guide daily practice.
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