Identifying patients for advanced heart failure therapy by screening patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: A pilot study

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 651-654

  Zabarovskaja, Stanislava ^a,b   Gadler, Fredrik ^a,b   Gabrielsen, Anders ^a   Linde, Cecilia ^a,b   Lund, Lars H ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84877971999     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2013.02.008     Document Type: Letter

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