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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Blalock 618, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287

(Email: jconte@csurg.jhmi.jhu.edu).

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Myocardial infarction leads to both immediate and delayed morbidity and mortality. The process of infarct expansion, progressive border zone dysfunction, and ventricular enlargement in a process known as postinfarction remodeling is a key component of late morbidity and mortality.

In this issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Blom and colleagues [1] demonstrate in an ovine model of myocardial infarction that early . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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