Comparison of Baseline versus Posttreatment Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure for Predicting Cardiovascular Outcome: Implications from Single-Center Systolic Heart Failure Cohort

• Jih-Kai Yeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jih-Kai Yeh, Yuan-Chuan Hsiao, Cian-Ruei Jian

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

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• Yuan-Chuan Hsiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jih-Kai Yeh, Yuan-Chuan Hsiao, Cian-Ruei Jian

  Affiliation Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Cian-Ruei Jian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jih-Kai Yeh, Yuan-Chuan Hsiao, Cian-Ruei Jian

  Affiliation Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Chao-Hung Wang,

  Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Shien Wen,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

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• Chi-Tai Kuo,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

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• Feng-Chun Tsai,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

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• Victor Chien-Chia Wu ,

  * E-mail: victorcwu@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

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• Tien-Hsing Chen

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen, China

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