Early dyspnoea relief in acute heart failure: Prevalence, association with mortality, and effect of rolofylline in the PROTECT Study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1519-1534

  Metra, Marco ^a   Oconnor, Christopher M ^b   Davison, Beth A ^c   Cleland, John G F ^d   Ponikowski, Piotr ^e   Teerlink, John R ^f   Voors, Adriaan A ^g   Givertz, Michael M ^h   Mansoor, George A ⁱ   Bloomfield, Daniel M ⁱ   Jia, Gang ⁱ   Delucca, Paul ⁱ   Massie, Barry ^f   Dittrich, Howard ⁱ   Cotter, Gad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Momentum Research Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^e WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Diuretics; Dyspnoea

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; ROLOFYLLINE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPNEA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOSINE A1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XANTHINES;

EID: 79959403043     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr042     Document Type: Article

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