DEFEAT - Heart failure: A guide to management of geriatric heart failure by generalist physicians

Minerva Medica

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-50

  Ahmed, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Etiology aged heart failure; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; CANDESARTAN; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; METOPROLOL; SERTRALINE;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; MALE; PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROTOXICOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 66549088764     PISSN: 00264806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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