Carvedilol therapy is associated with an improvement in left atrial appendage function in patients with congestive heart failure

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 623-628

  Sevimli, Serdar ^a,b   Yilmaz, Mustafa ^a   Gundogdu, Fuat ^a   Arslan, Sakir ^a   Gurlertop, Yekta ^a   Erol, M Kemal ^a   Bozkurt, Engin ^a   Acikel, Mahmut ^a   Senocak, Huseyin ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carvedilol; Heart failure; Left atrial appendage

Indexed keywords

CARVEDILOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBAZOLES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROPANOLAMINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250761336     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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