Canadian Cardiovascular Society consensus conference recommendations on heart failure 2006: diagnosis and management.

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Published in Can J Cardiol on January 01, 2006

Authors

J Malcolm O Arnold1, Peter Liu, Catherine Demers, Paul Dorian, Nadia Giannetti, Haissam Haddad, George A Heckman, Jonathan G Howlett, Andrew Ignaszewski, David E Johnstone, Philip Jong, Robert S McKelvie, Gordon W Moe, John D Parker, Vivek Rao, Heather J Ross, Errol J Sequeira, Anna M Svendsen, Koon Teo, Ross T Tsuyuki, Michel White, Canadian Cardiovascular Society

Author Affiliations

1: University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. malcolm.arnold@lhsc.on.ca

Associated clinical trials:

A Randomized Study of the MitraClip Device in Heart Failure Patients With Clinically Significant Functional Mitral Regurgitation (RESHAPE-HF) | NCT01772108

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