Heart Failure With a Normal Ejection Fraction (HFNEF): Embracing Complexity

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 561-564

  Maurer, Mathew S ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH NORMAL EJECTION FRACTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIDIVISM; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 68849116033     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.04.004     Document Type: Editorial

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