Editorial: The STICH trial unravelled

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1024-1027

  Buckberg, Gerald D ^a   Athanasuleas, Constantine L ^b   Wechsler, Andrew S ^c   Beyersdorf, Friedhelm ^d   Conte, John V ^e   Strobeck, John E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKINESIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSKINESIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL VENTRICULAR RECONSTRUCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; PROGNOSIS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77957233080     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfq147     Document Type: Editorial

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