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The main purpose of this study was to determine the impact of multiorgan ultrasound in identifying pulmonary hypertension (PH), a major prognostic factor in patients admitted due to AHF, and assess whether there are significant changes in the venous excess ultrasonography (VE \u00d7 US) score or femoral vein Doppler at discharge. Materials and Methods: Patients were evaluated with a standard protocol of lung ultrasound, echocardiography, inferior vena cava (IVC) and hepatic, portal, intra-renal and femoral vein Doppler flow patterns at admission and on the day of discharge. Results: Thirty patients were enrolled during November 2021. The mean age was seventy-nine years (Standard Deviation\u2013SD 13.4). Seven patients (23.3%) had a worsening renal function during hospitalization. Regarding ultrasound findings, VE \u00d7 US score was calculated at admission and at discharge, unexpectedly remaining unchanged or even worsened (21 patients, 70.0%). The area under the curve for the lung score was 83.9% (p = 0.008), obtaining a cutoff value of 10 that showed a sensitivity of 82.6% and a specificity of 71.4% in the identification of intermediate and high PH. It was possible to monitor significant changes between both exams on the lung score (16.5 vs. 9.3; p &lt; 0.001), improvement in the hepatic vein Doppler pattern (2.4 vs. 2.1; p = 0.002), improvement in portal vein Doppler pattern (1.7 vs. 1.4; p = 0.023), without significant changes in the intra-renal vein Doppler pattern (1.70 vs. 1.57; p = 0.293), VE \u00d7 US score (1.3 vs. 1.1; p = 0.501), femoral vein Doppler pattern (2.4 vs. 2.1; p = 0.161) and IVC collapsibility (2.0 vs. 2.1; p = 0.420). Conclusions: Our study results suggest that performing serial multiorgan Point-of-Care ultrasound can help us to better identify high and intermediate probability of PH patients with AHF. Currently proposed multi-organ, venous Doppler scanning protocols, such as the VE \u00d7 US score, should be further studied before expanding its use in AHF patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina58010124","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,16]],"date-time":"2022-01-16T20:45:21Z","timestamp":1642365921000},"page":"124","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Usefulness of Serial Multiorgan Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Acute Heart Failure: Results from a Prospective Observational Cohort"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"58","author":[{"given":"Marta","family":"Torres-Arrese","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Universitario Fundaci\u00f3n de Alcorc\u00f3n, 28922 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5171-7373","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gonzalo","family":"Garc\u00eda de Casasola-S\u00e1nchez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Universitario Fundaci\u00f3n de Alcorc\u00f3n, 28922 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0830-8897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Manuel","family":"M\u00e9ndez-Bail\u00f3n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Cl\u00ednico San Carlos, 28040 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Esther","family":"Montero-Hern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, 28222 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marta","family":"Cobo-Marcos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, CIBERCV, Majadahonda, 28222 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mercedes","family":"Rivas-Lasarte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, CIBERCV, Majadahonda, 28222 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Luis","family":"Caurcel-D\u00edaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Palliative Medicine, Hospital 12 de Octubre, 28041 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pablo","family":"Rodr\u00edguez-Fuertes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Universitario La Paz, 28046 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tomas","family":"Vill\u00e9n-Villegas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28223 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5613-3609","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yale","family":"Tung-Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, 28222 Madrid, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Medicine, Universidad Alfonso X, 28691 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"e1","article-title":"2015 ESC\/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension","volume":"69","author":"Humbert","year":"2016","journal-title":"Rev. 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