Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 661-669, October 2008

High Mortality Without ESCAPE: The Registry of Heart Failure Patients Receiving Pulmonary Artery Catheters Without Randomization

  • Larry A. Allen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Joseph G. Rogers, MD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Joseph G. Rogers, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke University, Box 3034 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710.
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  • J. Wayne Warnica, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Foothills Provincial General Hospital, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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  • Thomas G. DiSalvo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Division, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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  • Gudaye Tasissa, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Christopher M. O'Connor, MD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Robert M. Califf, MD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Carl V. Leier, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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  • Monica R. Shah, MD

      Affiliations

    • Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
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  • Lynne W. Stevenson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • On Behalf of the ESCAPE Investigators and Coordinators

Received 4 February 2008; received in revised form 29 April 2008; accepted 8 May 2008. published online 02 July 2008.

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 The ESCAPE registry was funded in part by an unrestricted grant from Edwards LifeSciences. The ESCAPE trial and overall program were primarily supported by contract N01-HV-98177 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

PII: S1071-9164(08)00168-1

doi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.05.004

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 661-669, October 2008

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