Cardiovascular adaptation to chronic anemia in the elderly: An echocardiographic study

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 265-273

  Aessopos, Athanasios ^a,c   Deftereos, Spyros ^a   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Corovesis, Costas ^a   Tassiopoulos, Stergios ^a   Tsironi, Maria ^a   Georgonikou, Dimitra ^a   Moyssakis, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART DISEASE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARLING LAW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; ANEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 10844230963     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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