The AGE of Biomaterials: Preserving the Myocardium after Infarction to Promote Heart Repair and Function

Myocardial infarction (MI) persists as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Often patients whom survive the initial injury will develop heart failure characterized by a dilated and functionally incompetent heart. Heart failure (HF) carries a worse prognosis than most cancers, and the only c...

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Main Author: Blackburn, Nicholas
Other Authors: Suuronen, Erik Jukka
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36371
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-20651