Exercise training in advanced heart failure patients: Discordance between improved exercise tolerance and unchanged NT-proBNP levels

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-119

  Arad, Michael ^a   Adler, Yehuda ^a   Koren Morag, Nira ^b   Natanzon, Shy ^a   Sela, Ben Ami ^a   Ben Dov, Issahar ^a   Shechter, Michael ^a   Schwammenthal, Ehud ^a   Freimark, Dov ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Advanced heart failure; Exercise capacity; NT proBNP; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 41949096077     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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