Effect of elevated admission serum creatinine and its worsening on outcome in hospitalized patients with decompensated heart failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 957-960

  Akhter, Mohammed W ^a   Aronson, Doron ^b   Bitar, Fahed ^a   Khan, Salman ^a   Singh, Harpreet ^a   Singh, Rajinder P ^a   Burger, Andrew J ^b   Elkayam, Uri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CREATININE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 5344228250     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.06.041     Document Type: Article

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