Infection in Patients with Decompensated Heart Failure: In-Hospital Mortality and Outcome

Abstract Background: Heart failure (HF) is a syndrome, whose advanced forms have a poor prognosis, which is aggravated by the presence of comorbidities. Objective: We assessed the impact of infection in patients with decompensated HF admitted to a tertiary university-affiliated hospital in the cit...

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Main Authors: Juliano Novaes Cardoso, Carlos Henrique Del Carlo, Mucio Tavares de Oliveira Junior, Marcelo Eidi Ochiai, Roberto Kalil Filho, Antônio Carlos Pereira Barretto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2018-03-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2018005003103&lng=en&tlng=en