Why do patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and a substantial amount of viable myocardium not always recover in function after revascularization?
- Schinkel, Arend F L
- Poldermans, Don
- Rizzello, Vittoria
- Vanoverschelde, Jean-Louis
- Elhendy, Abdou
- Boersma, Eric
- Roelandt, Jos R T C
- Bax, Jeroen J
Publication date
January 2004
DOI Publisher
Elsevier BV ISSN
0022-5223 Citation count (estimate)
96Abstract
In patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and a substantial amount of dysfunctional but viable myocardium, myocardial revascularization may improve left ventricular ejection fraction. The aim of this study was to evaluate why not all patients with a substantial amount of viable tissue recover in function after revascularization
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