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Cardiac asthma in elderly patients: incidence, clinical presentation and outcome

BACKGROUND: Cardiac asthma is common, but has been poorly investigated. The objective was to compare the characteristics and outcome of cardiac asthma with that of classical congestive heart failure (CHF) in elderly patients. METHODS: Prospective study in an 1,800-bed teaching hospital. RESULTS: Two...

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Autores principales: Jorge, Stéphane, Becquemin, Marie-Hélène, Delerme, Samuel, Bennaceur, Mohamed, Isnard, Richard, Achkar, Rony, Riou, Bruno, Boddaert, Jacques, Ray, Patrick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1878501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17498318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-7-16