Left ventricular restoration surgery for isolated left ventricular noncompaction: Report of the first successful case

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 246-247

  Shimamoto, Takeshi ^a   Marui, Akira ^a   Yamanaka, Kazuo ^b   Shikata, Norihiro ^c   Tambara, Keiichi ^a   Ikeda, Tadashi ^a   Komeda, Masashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Center for Cerebrovascular Disease   (Japan)

^c Kyoto Min iren Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE;

ADULT; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; LUNG CONGESTION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STERNOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34250746440     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.03.021     Document Type: Article

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