Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: A common but mystifying cause of heart failure

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 481-487

  Mohan, Siva B ^a   Parker, Miriam ^a   Wehbi, Mohammad ^a   Douglass, Paul ^a  

^a ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; CARVEDILOL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; FOSINOPRIL; LISINOPRIL; METOPROLOL; QUINAPRIL; RAMIPRIL; WARFARIN;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036089224     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.69.6.481     Document Type: Review

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