Cardiac and renal dysfunction in chronic heart failure: Relation to neurohumoral activation and prognosis

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 321, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 359-366

  Marenzi, GianCarlo ^a,b   Lauri, Gianfranco ^a   Guazzi, Marco ^a   Assanelli, Emilio ^a   Grazi, Marco ^a   Famoso, Gabriella ^a   Agostoni, Piergiuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CENTRO CARDIOLOGICO MONZINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aldosterone; Heart failure; Noradrenaline; Plasma renin activity; Renal function

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; ALDOSTERONE; CREATININE; NORADRENALIN; RENIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALDOSTERONE; CREATININE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROGNOSIS; RENIN;

EID: 0035375271     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200106000-00001     Document Type: Article

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