How to diagnose diastolic heart failure

European Heart Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 990-1003

  Paulus, Walter J ^a   Brutsaert, Dirk L ^b   Gillebert, Thierry C ^b   Rademakers, Frank E ^b   Sys, Stanislas U ^b   Leite Moreira, Adelino F ^m   Hess, O M ^c   Jiang, Zhihua ^c   Kaufmann, Philipp ^c   Mandinov, Lazar ^c   Matter, Christian ^c   Marino, Paolo ^d   Gibson, Derek G ^e   Henein, Michael Y ^e   Manolas, Jan ^f   Smiseth, Otto A ^g   Stugaard, Marie ^g   Hatle, Liv K ^h   Spirito, Paolo ⁱ   Betocchi, Sandro ^j   Villari, Bruno ^j   Goetzsche, Ole ^k   Shah, Ajay M ^l   more..

^a CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^h LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^k AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^l CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m Univ of Wales College of Medicine ^*

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

DIASTOLE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032127076     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1998.1057     Document Type: Review

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