End stage chronic heart failure

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 137, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 107-113

  Leibundgut, G ^a   Brunner La Rocca, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Device therapy; End stage disease; Heart failure; Heart transplantation; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EPLERENONE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MECHANISM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33947197819     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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