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Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 390-395 , May 2010

Lower Extremity Performance Measures Predict Long-Term Prognosis in Older Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure

Daniela Chiarantini, MD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Stefano Volpato, MD, MPH
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Fotini Sioulis, MD
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Francesca Bartalucci, MD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Laura Del Bianco, MD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Irene Mangani, MD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Giuseppe Pepe, MD
- Emergency Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Francesca Tarantini, MD, PhD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Andrea Berni, MD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Internal Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Niccolo Marchionni, MD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Mauro Di Bari, MD, PhD
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
- Reprint requests: Mauro Di Bari, MD, PhD, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics Medicine, University of Florence, Viale Pieraccini, 650139 Florence-Italy. Tel: +39 055 4271468; Fax: +39 055 4271469.