Characteristics and outcomes of acute heart failure in sub Saharan Africa

The main objective of this thesis was to study the clinical characteristics and short-term (6 months) outcome of acute heart failure as well as determine the role of conventional biomarker BNP and the novel biomarker Gal3 in the prognostication of acute heart failure patients. To achieve this, we in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sani, Mahmoud Umar
Other Authors: Sliwa, Karen
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23778