The natural history of new-onset heart failure with a severely depressed left ventricular ejection fraction: Implications for timing of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation

American Heart Journal

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 358-364

  Teeter, William A ^a,b   Thibodeau, Jennifer T ^a   Rao, Krishnasree ^a   Brickner, M Elizabeth ^a   Toto, Kathleen H ^c   Nelson, Lauren L ^c   Mishkin, Joseph D ^a   Ayers, Colby R ^d   Miller, Justin G ^b   Mammen, Pradeep P A ^a   Patel, Parag C ^a,c   Markham, David W ^a   Drazner, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PARKLAND HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; CARVEDILOL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SEVERELY DEPRESSED LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; CARBAZOLES; COHORT STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; METOPROLOL; MIDDLE AGED; PROPANOLAMINES; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866318101     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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