Editorial: Defining the relationship between akinesia and dyskinesia and the cause of left ventricular failure after anterior infarction and reversal of remodeling to restoration

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-49

  Buckberg, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKINESIA; CARDIOMYOPLASTY; DYSKINESIA; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031596410     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(98)70241-7     Document Type: Editorial

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