Letter to the editor: Infarct size measurements are critically important when comparing interventions affecting ventricular remodeling [1]

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Lygate, Craig ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; CORONARY RISK; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; INTERVENTION STUDY; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 36148945598     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00908.2007     Document Type: Letter

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