Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure: executive summary (update 2005)

Heart Failure/classification/diagnosis/drug therapy/epidemiology/mortality/surgery/therapy; Heart Transplantation; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Meta-Analysis as Topic; Middle Aged; Radiography, Thoracic; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Respiratory Function Tests; Risk Factors; Terminology as Topic; Time Factors

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Cardiovascular & respiratory systems

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Swedberg, Karl

Cleland, John

Dargie, Henry

Drexler, Helmut

Follath, Ferenc

Komajda, Michel

Tavazzi, Luigi

Smiseth, Otto A.

Gavazzi, Antonello

Haverich, Axel

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English

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Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure: executive summary (update 2005)

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[en] Guias de Practica Clinica sobre el Diagnostico y Tratamiento de la Insuficiencia Cardiaca Cronica. Version resumida (actualizacion 2005).

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2005

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Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

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0300-8932

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1579-2242

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Ediciones Doyma sa, Spain

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1062-92

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