General characteristics and outcome of patients older than 65 years with severe heart failure;CARACTERISTICAS Y EVOLUCION DE LOS PACIENTES MAYORES DE 65 ANOS CON INSUFICIENCIA CARDIACA SEVERA

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 253-258

  Ruiz, Martín ^a   Anguita, Manuel ^a   De Zayas, Ricardo ^a   Bergillos, Francisco ^a   Torres, Francisco ^a   Giménez, Diego ^a   Benítez, Jacinto ^a   Alonso, Silvia ^a   Vallés, Federico ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

heart failure; older patients; prognosis

Indexed keywords

AMRINONE; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRATE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; VASODILATOR AGENT;

AGE; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIURETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0029967701     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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