Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 2-7 , January 2010

Predictors of myocardial contractile recovery after coronary revascularization in patients with prior myocardial infarction

  • Zainab Abdel-Salam
    • ,
  • Wail Nammas

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Cardiology Department, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, P.O. Box 11381, Cairo, Egypt. Tel.: +20 12 4063718; fax: +20 2 24820416.

Received 22 November 2008 ,Revised 4 January 2009 ,Accepted 9 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.carrev.2009.01.003

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 2-7 , January 2010

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