Elective bridging to recovery after repair: The surgical approach to ventricular reverse remodeling

Artificial Organs

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 730-734

  Pitsis, Antonis A ^a   Visouli, Aikaterini N ^a   Ninios, Vlasis ^a   Bougioukas, Georgios ^b   Filippatos, Gerasimos ^c   Kremastinos, Dimitrios ^c   Burkhoff, Daniel ^d   Long, James W ^e  

^a St Luke's Hospital   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure operations; Left ventricular assist device; Left ventricular reshaping restoration; Mitral valve repair; Pacing; Resynchronization biventricular

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REPAIR; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

CHRONIC HEART FAILURES; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE OPERATION; LEAVE VENTRICULAR RESHAPING/RESTORATION; LEFT VENTRICULAR; MITRAL VALVE REPAIRS; PACING; RESYNCHRONIZATION; RESYNCHRONIZATION/BIVENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH;

EID: 51849129523     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2008.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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