Patients with mild heart failure worsen during withdrawal from digoxin therapy

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-48

  Adams Jr , Kirkwood F ^a   Gheorghiade, Mihai ^c   Uretsky, Barry F ^d   Young, James B ^e   Ahmed, Sagir ^a   Tomasko, Lisa ^b   Packer, Milton ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; DIGOXIN; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0342378157     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00133-2     Document Type: Article

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