dyspnea and edema were noted. Tolvaptan may be a useful adjunctive therapy for acute decompensated heart failure given its aquaretic properties, relatively safe side-effect profile and absence of ...

Objectives: Patients with sepsis are often comorbid with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and the phenotypic characteristics of pulmonary and non-pulmonary infections leading to ARDS are ...

At this point, I would pause to consider other diagnostic possibilities. The differential diagnosis of acute dyspnea is extensive in a patient of this age with known systolic heart failure ...

Use of short-term recall for obtaining acute symptom descriptors was a limitation in a subset of the patients for whom talking was prohibitive during initial presentation to the ED. Lastly ...