Impact of descent and stay at a dead sea resort (low altitude) on patients with systolic congestive heart failure and an implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 402-407

  Gabizon, Isack ^a,b   Shiyovich, Arthur ^a,b,c   Novack, Victor ^a   Khalameizer, Vladimir ^a,b,c   Yosefy, Chaim ^a,b,c   Moses, Shimon W ^a,b   Katz, Amos ^a,b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Systolic congestive heart failure

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAD SEA; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAFETY; SEA; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH RESORTS; HEART FAILURE, SYSTOLIC; HEART RATE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960683753     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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