Blood transfusion for acute decompensated heart failure-friend or foe?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 653-658

  Garty, Moshe ^a,b   Cohen, Eytan ^a,b   Zuchenko, Alexander ^a,b   Behar, Solomon ^b,c   Boyko, Valentina ^c   Iakobishvili, Zaza ^a,b   Mittelman, Moshe ^b,d   Battler, Alexander ^a,b   Shotan, Avraham ^e   Gottlieb, Shmuel ^b,c,f   Caspi, Avraham ^g   Hasdai, David ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^g KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349223838     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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