ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 2388-2442

  Dickstein, Kenneth ^a,b   Cohen Solal, Alain ^a   Filippatos, Gerasimos ^a   McMurray, John J V ^a   Ponikowski, Piotr ^a   Poole Wilson, Philip Alexander ^a   Strömberg, Anna ^a   Van Veldhuisen, Dirk J ^a   Atar, Dan ^a   Hoes, Arno W ^a   Keren, Andre ^a   Mebazaa, Alexandre ^a   Nieminen, Markku ^a   Priori, Silvia Giuliana ^a   Swedberg, Karl ^a   Vahanian, Alec ^a   Camm, John ^a   De Caterina, Raffaele ^a   Dean, Veronica ^a   Funck Brentano, Christian ^a   Hellemans, Irene ^a   Kristensen, Steen Dalby ^a   McGregor, Keith ^a   Sechtem, Udo ^a   Silber, Sigmund ^a   Tendera, Michal ^a   Widimsky, Petr ^a   Zamorano, Jose Luis ^a   Auricchio, Angelo ^a   Bax, Jeroen ^a   Böhm, Michael ^a   Corrà, Ugo ^a   Della Bella, Paolo ^a   Elliott, Perry M ^a   Follath, Ferenc ^a   Gheorghiade, Mihai ^a   Hasin, Yonathan ^a   Hernborg, Anders ^a   Jaarsma, Tiny ^a   Komajda, Michel ^a   Kornowski, Ran ^a   Piepoli, Massimo ^a   Prendergast, Bernard ^a   Tavazzi, Luigi ^a   Vachiery, Jean Luc ^a   Verheugt, Freek W A ^a   Zannad, Faiez ^a   more..

^a Stavanger University Hospital ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; AMILORIDE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; BUCINDOLOL; CANDESARTAN; CAPTOPRIL; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; EPLERENONE; HYDRALAZINE PLUS ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LISINOPRIL; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; NEBIVOLOL; NITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC AGENT; PRAZOSIN; RAMIPRIL; SPIRONOLACTONE; TRANDOLAPRIL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALSARTAN; VASODILATOR AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANOREXIA; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTIFICIAL HEART; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CACHEXIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTRACEPTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGHING; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE TEST; FEVER; FLUID INTAKE; GOUT; GYNECOMASTIA; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SINOATRIAL BLOCK; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNIZATION; JOINT SWELLING; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MOOD DISORDER; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; OXYGENATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERICARDITIS; PLEURISY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RASH; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ULTRAFILTRATION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 53249090182     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn309     Document Type: Review

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