ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008;Guía de práctica clínica de la sociedad europea de cardiología (ESC) para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de la insuficiencia cardiaca aguda y crónica (2008)

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  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  

^a Stavanger University Hospital ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; AMIODARONE; BENDROFLUMETHIAZIDE; BISOPROLOL; BUMETANIDE; CANDESARTAN; CAPTOPRIL; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; ENALAPRIL; EPLERENONE; FUROSEMIDE; HYDRALAZINE PLUS ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; INDAPAMIDE; LISINOPRIL; METOLAZONE; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE; NEBIVOLOL; PLACEBO; PRAZOSIN; QUINIDINE; RAMIPRIL; SPIRONOLACTONE; TORASEMIDE; TRANDOLAPRIL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALSARTAN; VERAPAMIL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEMIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTHRALGIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CACHEXIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPLASTY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTRACEPTION; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLE; DREAMING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMPORIATRICS; EXERCISE; FEVER; GOUT; GYNECOMASTIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART GRAFT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNIZATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIGRAINE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERICARDITIS; PLEURISY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING CESSATION; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SYSTOLE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER DEPRIVATION; WEIGHT CONTROL;

EID: 57549085380     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: 15792242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1885-5857(09)60059-1     Document Type: Review

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