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Congestive heart failure

Prevalence
Causes
Clinical features
Differential diagnosis
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis
Clinical features

Ask about dyspnoea on exertion b

Why?

No dyspnoea exertion makes left ventricular failure very unlikely

Patient Target Disorder and
Reference Standard
Diagnostic Test LR+
(95% CI)
Post-test Probability LR-
(95% CI)
Post-test Probability
suspected heart failure b (pre-test probability: 17%) left ventricular systolic failure
(echocardiogram)
dyspnoea on exertion 1.2
(1.1 to 1.3)
18% 0.0
(0.0 to 0.084)
0%

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   B   Lee
CAT Writers   CM   Ball , CJ   Wotton , A   Yates