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For patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure, do you wait until the patient is euvolemic before ordering a TTE?
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Hospital Medicine · Temple University Hospital
For patients with newly diagnosed CHF, I always get a TTE prior to discharge to establish a baseline study. It would help me identify valvular disease and pulmonary hypertension, or other structural problems. If a TTE would help you distinguish CHF from other volume overload conditions, then I would...