Congestive heart failure: Treat the disease, not the symptom - Return to normalcy

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 628-637

  Buckberg, Gerald D ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

AKINESIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EDITORIAL; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL HIBERNATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0035323913     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2001.114075     Document Type: Article

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