Effects of Isovolumic Loading Elicited Either by 3-Branch or by 4-Branch Spring Expander on the Degree of Cardiac Atrophy of the Failing Heart in Rats After Heterotopic Heart Transplantation: No Evidence for Sex-Linked Differences.
An important harmful side effect of the prolonged support of the left ventricle (LV) with an LV assist device (LVAD) in patients with advanced heart failure (HF) is development of cardiac atrophy. Our first aim was to evaluate if implantation of the four-branch spring expander into LV of the rat wil...
| Published in: | Physiological Research Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 729 - 742 |
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Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Oct2025
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