Heart Failure in the " Oldest Old" : Clinical and Echocardiographic Insights

American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 236-242

  Bouchard, Joseph L ^a   Aurigemma, Gerard P ^a   Goldberg, Robert J ^a   Fournier, John B ^a   Vinch, Craig S ^a   Hill, Jeffrey C ^a   Ennis, Cynthia A ^a   Tighe, Dennis A ^a   Meyer, Theo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 35248887578     PISSN: 10767460     EISSN: 1751715X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1076-7460.2007.06211.x     Document Type: Article

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