The death rate among hospitalized heart failure patients with normal and depressed left ventricular ejection fraction in the year following discharge: Evolution over a 10-year period

European Heart Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 2251-2258

  Shamagian, Lilian Grigorian ^a   Gonzalez Juanatey, Jose Ramon ^a   Varela Roman, Alfonso ^a   Garcia Acuña, Jose Maria ^a   Lamela, Alejandro Virgós ^a  

^a University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolution of the prognosis; Heart failure; Left ventricular systolic function

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 27544507282     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi383     Document Type: Article

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