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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:810-811. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.056
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Rupak Mukherjee, PhD

Cardiothoracic Surgery, 770 MUSC Complex, Suite 625, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425

(Email: mukherr@musc.edu).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

Progressive dilation of the left ventricle (LV) and deterioration of LV pump performance often occur after myocardial infarction (MI). A number of pharmacological or nonpharmacological interventions, or both, have been used to attenuate or even reverse these progressive adverse changes in LV geometry and function. However, mechanisms that contribute to these changes, especially the role of the changes in the material properties of the MI region, remain largely unexplored.

In this article, Pilla and colleagues [1] describe a mathematical simulation for changes in hemodynamics and LV geometry as a function of changing the compliance (or stiffness) of a hypothesized MI region. The authors refer to the mathematical model as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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