Left ventricular reconstruction: The aim and the reality after twenty years

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-20

  Dor, Vincent ^a  

^a Centre Cardio Thoracique de Monaco   (Monaco)

Author keywords

22; 23; 30

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE;

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; ENDOVENTRICULAR CIRCULAR RECONSTRUCTION; HEART BEAT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOTENSIN II; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RENIN; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 3042846722     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.02.026     Document Type: Editorial

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