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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 30, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(23):2823-2824; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm490
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Early continuous positive airway pressure in acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema

Josep Masip*

ICU, Hospital Dos de Maig, University of Barcelona, Consorci Sanitari Integral, Dos de Maig 301, Barcelona 08025, Spain

* Corresponding author. Tel: +34 93 5072700; fax: +34 93 4367131. E-mail address: jmasip@ub.edu

This editorial refers to ‘A randomized study of out-of-hospital continuous positive airway pressure for acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema: physiological and clinical effects’ by P. Plaisance et al., on page 2895

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Acute heart failure (AHF) syndromes are the most frequent cause of urgent consultation in patients with heart disease.1 In nearly 20% of cases the clinical presentation is acute pulmonary oedema.2 Although the diagnostic criteria of this syndrome have not been universally established, it is frequently defined by the sudden onset of severe dyspnoea and the presence of typical signs on physical examination, alveolar oedema on chest radiograph, and signs of acute respiratory failure. The latter is essential for the diagnosis. Consequently, different forms of AHF presenting with acute respiratory failure, such as hypertensive AHF,3 hypertensive pulmonary oedema,4 flash pulmonary oedema,1,5 and pulmonary oedema without hypertension or associated . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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