Gamma-glutamyltransferase rather than total bilirubin predicts outcome in chronic heart failure

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 577-584

  Ess, Michael ^a   Mussner Seeber, Christine ^a   Mariacher, Siegfried ^a   Lorsbach Koehler, Almut ^a   Pachinger, Otmar ^a   Frick, Matthias ^a   Ulmer, Hanno ^a   Poelzl, Gerhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Glutamyltransferase; bilirubin; heart failure; prognosis

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEATH; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959549570     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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