Surgical ventricular restoration for the treatment of heart failure

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 703-716

  Buckberg, Gerald ^a   Athanasuleas, Constantine ^b   Conte, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGING; ANGIOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL THERAPY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FIBROBLAST; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MUSCLE CELL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SHORT TERM SURVIVAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL VENTRICULAR RESTORATION; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84870239096     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2012.143     Document Type: Review

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