Importance of congestive heart failure and interaction of conaestive heart failure and left ventricular systolic function on prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1124-1128

  Køber, Lars ^a   Torp Pedersen, Christian ^b   Pedersen, Ole D ^b   Høiberg, Søren ^b   Camm, A John ^b  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030588450     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(96)90064-8     Document Type: Article

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