Right ventricular response to intensive medical therapy in advanced decompensated heart failure

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 340-346

  Verhaert, David ^a   Mullens, Wilfried ^a   Borowski, Allen ^a   Popović, Zoran B ^a   Curtin, Ronan J ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Tang, W H Wilson ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart failure; Hemodynamics; Prognosis; Right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOBUTAMINE; HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; MILRINONE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; VASODILATOR AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED DECOMPENSATED HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 77954713991     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.109.900134     Document Type: Article

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