Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 489-496 , August 2008

Decreasing Body Temperature Predicts Early Rehospitalization in Congestive Heart Failure

  • Amany Ahmed, MD

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
    • University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Amany Ahmed, MD, Texas Heart Institute, 6770 Bertner Avenue, MC 2-255, Houston, TX 77030.
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  • Ibrahim Aboshady, MD

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
    • University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas
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  • Shahzeb M. Munir, MD

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
    • University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas
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  • Sreedevi Gondi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
    • University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas
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  • Alan Brewer, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
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  • S. David Gertz, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • Dejian Lai, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
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  • Naushad A. Shaik, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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  • K.J. Shankar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
    • University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas
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  • Anita Deswal, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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  • S. Ward Casscells, MD

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
    • University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas

Received 23 July 2007 ,Revised 7 February 2008 ,Accepted 12 February 2008.

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PII: S1071-9164(08)00067-5

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.02.008

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 489-496 , August 2008

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