Referências principais:

1) ACC/AHA TASK FORCE HEART FAILURE GUIDELINES - Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Heart Failure Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Evaluation and Management of Heart Failure), JACC VOL. 26, NO. 5 NOVEMBER 1, 1995:1376-98

2) Guidelines - The Tratment of Heart Failure - The Task Force of the Working Group on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology, European Heart Journal (1997) 18, 736-753

3) Goodman & Gilman's Tha Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics 9^th ed.

4) Socesp Cardiologia Segundo Volume

5) Maristela Camargo Monachini - Fisiopatologia da insuficiência cardíaca congestiva - alterações básicas e mecanismos adaptativos; Fisiopatologia da insuficiência cardíaca congestiva - alterações básicas e mecanismos adaptativos; RSCESP 1998