PMID- 29352326 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180924 LR - 20191211 IS - 1861-0692 (Electronic) IS - 1861-0684 (Linking) VI - 107 IP - 5 DP - 2018 May TI - Noninvasive pulse contour analysis for determination of cardiac output in patients with chronic heart failure. PG - 395-404 LID - 10.1007/s00392-017-1198-7 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Determination of cardiac output (CO) is essential in diagnosis and management of heart failure (HF). The gold standard to obtain CO is invasive assessment via thermodilution (TD). Noninvasive pulse contour analysis (NPCA) is supposed as a new method of CO determination. However, a validation of this method in HF is pending and performed in the present study. METHODS: Patients with chronic-stable HF and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF