Treatment with inotropes and related prognosis in acute heart failure: Contemporary data from the Italian Network on Heart Failure (IN-HF) Outcome registry

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1056-1065

  Mortara, Andrea ^a   Oliva, Fabrizio ^b   Metra, Marco ^c   Carbonieri, Emanuele ^d   Di Lenarda, Andrea ^e   Gorini, Marco ^f   Midi, Paolo ^g   Senni, Michele ^h   Urso, Renato ^f   Lucci, Donata ^f   Maggioni, Aldo P ^f   Tavazzi, Luigi ⁱ  

^a Policlinico di Monza   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^c SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^d Orlandi Hospital   (Italy)

^e Cardiovascular Unit   (Italy)

^f ANMCO RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^g Cardiology Department   (Italy)

^h PAPA GIOVANNI XXIII HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁱ MARIA CECILIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

acute heart; blood; death prognosis; failure; IN HF; inotropes systolic; Outcome registry; pressure

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT; CARDIOTONIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGISTER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84908129358     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.05.015     Document Type: Article

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