American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 1 , Pages 69-74 , January 2008

Recovery of normal ventricular function in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy: Predictors of an increasingly prevalent clinical event

Received 18 April 2007 ,Accepted 12 August 2007.

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 Supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/National Institutes of Health grants K24-HL04208 and K23HL004483 and the James H. and Ruth J. Wilson Professorship. The authors have no conflicts to report relevant to this work.

PII: S0002-8703(07)00686-2

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.08.010

American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 1 , Pages 69-74 , January 2008

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