Prognostic importance of elevated jugular venous pressure and a third heart sound in patients with heart failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 345, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 574-581

  Drazner, Mark H ^a,b   Rame, J Eduardo ^a   Stevenson, Lynne W ^c   Dries, Daniel L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART SOUNDS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0035940039     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa010641     Document Type: Article

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