Time to ferry heart failure onto new shores: The need to effectively customize long-term therapy

American Heart Journal

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Parrinello, Gaspare ^a   Torres, Daniele ^a   Paterna, Salvatore ^a   Licata, Giuseppe ^a   Di Pasquale, Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Ospedale GF Ingrassia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; TORASEMIDE;

COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DIURETIC THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SODIUM INTAKE; SURVIVAL RATE;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; DIURETICS; FUROSEMIDE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952442926     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.12.001     Document Type: Letter

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