Clinical determinants of mortality in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to idiopathic dilated or to ischemic cardiomyopathy

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1987, Pages 634-638

  Jessup Likoff, Mariell ^a   Chandler, Sheryl L ^a   Kay, Harold R ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART; HEART DILATATION; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, CONGESTIVE; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0023099960     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(87)91183-0     Document Type: Article

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