Determinants of survival following hospitalization for acute heart failure

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 201-211

  Jumean, Marwan F ^a   Kiernan, Michael S ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Biomarkers in heart failure; BNP; CHF; Heart failure prognosis; Heart failure readmission; Predictors of survival; Troponin

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COPEPTIN; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GALECTIN 3; INOTROPIC AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; NITROGEN; PROADRENOMEDULLIN; SODIUM; TROPONIN; UREA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGING; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RATE; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84903603891     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-014-0190-z     Document Type: Review

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