Improving outcomes in heart failure: a personal perspective
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Improving outcomes in heart failure: a personal perspective.
When I was a medical student and junior doctor in the early 1980s I saw many patients on the wards in hospital with this terrible illness for which we could do little. When the heart fails as a pump one of the main manifestations is accumulation of fluid due to retention of sodium and water by the kidneys which also malfunction as a result of reduced blood flow and other mechanisms. Fluid accum...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0195-668X,1522-9645
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv565