Course and prognosis in patients ≥70 years of age with congestive heart failure and normal versus abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 216-219

  Pernenkil, Ratnakar ^a   Vinson, Janice M ^a   Shah, Atul S ^a   Beckham, Valerie ^a   Wittenberg, Carol ^a   Rich, Michael W ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031567876     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00719-9     Document Type: Article

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