Editorial: Should erythropoietin treatment in chronic heart failure be haemoglobin targeted?

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-216

  Kleijn, Lennaert ^a   De Boer, Rudolf A ^a   Voors, Adriaan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; ANTIANEMIC AGENT;

ANEMIA; APOPTOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DRUG EFFECT; NOTE;

ANEMIA; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEART FAILURE; HEMATINICS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS;

EID: 77249101279     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfq008     Document Type: Editorial

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