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Right ventricular phenotypic characteristics in subjects with primary pulmonary hypertension or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
Journal of cardiac failure - 1 Mar 1999
Quaife R A, Lynch D, Badesch D B, Voelkel N F, Lowes B D, Robertson A D, Bristow M R
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BACKGROUND: Studies of animal models and human subjects with cardiomyopathies suggest that cardiac myocyte and ventricular chamber remodeling show distinct phenotypic characteristics that may be dependent on specific signaling pathways. METHODS AND RESULTS: In this study, we characterize right ventricular (RV) chamber size, end-diastolic thickness, myocardial mass, and ejection fraction (EF) in human subjects...
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