Role of echocardiography in the tailored follow-up of chronic heart failure in ambulatory patients;Ruolo dell'ecocardiografia nella personalizzazione del follow-up dello scompenso cardiaco cronico nel paziente ambulatoriale

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 11, Issue 5 SUPPL.2, 2010, Pages

  Temporelli, Pier Luigi ^a   Cioffi, Giovanni ^b   Dini, Frank L ^c   Ghio, Stefano ^d   Rossi, Andrea ^e  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b Casa di Cura Villa Bianca   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^d FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; OUTPATIENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77958165578     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: 19726481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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