Managing patients with rapid atrial fibrillation and decompensated heart failure

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-

  Al Habeeb, Waleed ^a   Al Admawi, Mohammed ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fibrillation; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN;

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77953667600     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.108.819540     Document Type: Short Survey

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