Does left ventricular shape influence clinical outcome in heart failure?

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 813-819

  Harjai, Kishore J ^a   Edupuganti, Ravindra ^a   Nunez, Eduardo ^a   Turgut, Tansel ^a   Scott, Luis ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^b  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Left ventricular shape; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0033767205     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960231130     Document Type: Article

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