Restraining Infarct Expansion Preserves Left Ventricular Geometry and Function After Acute Anteroapical Infarction
- 12 January 1999
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 99 (1) , 135-142
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.99.1.135
Abstract
Background—Expansion of an acute myocardial infarction predicts progressive left ventricular (LV) dilatation, functional deterioration, and early death. This study tests the hypothesis that restrai...Keywords
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