Homoarginine - An independent marker of mortality in heart failure

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4907-4909

  Atzler, Dorothee ^a,b   Rosenberg, Mark ^b,c   Anderssohn, Maike ^a   Choe, Chi Un ^a   Lutz, Matthias ^c   Zugck, Christian ^d   Böger, Rainer H ^a,b   Frey, Norbert ^b,c   Schwedhelm, Edzard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AGAT; Biomarker; Heart failure; Homoarginine; NO

Indexed keywords

HOMOARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LETTER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOMOARGININE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84886437235     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.07.099     Document Type: Article

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