Potential Applications of Outpatient Nesiritide Infusions in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure and Concomitant Renal Insufficiency (from the Follow-Up Serial Infusions of Nesiritide [FUSION I] Trial)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 226-229

  Yancy, Clyde W ^a   Singh, Ajay ^b  

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

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NESIRITIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPNEA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC AGENTS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; OUTPATIENTS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745674089     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.01.081     Document Type: Article

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