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Combination of preconditioning and delayed flap elevation: evidence for improved perfusion and oxygenation of the latissimus dorsi muscle for cardiomyoplasty.

Demand dynamic cardiomyoplasty: mechanograms prove incomplete transformation of the rested latissimus dorsi.

Preparation of a skeletal muscle ventricle in sheep: severe damage to the Latissimus dorsi muscle due to mobilization before preconditioning.

Permanent cardiac assistance from skeletal muscle: a prospect for the new millennium.

Salbutamol and the conditioning of latissimus dorsi for cardiomyoplasty.

Selective stimulation of latissimus dorsi muscle for cardiac assist.

Power output of pericardium-lined skeletal muscle ventricles, left ventricular apex to aorta configuration: up to eight months in circulation.

[Cellular cardiomyoplasty: state of the art, evaluation, and future possibilities].

As originally published in 1992: Skeletal muscle ventricles in the pulmonary circulation: up to 16 weeks' experience. Updated in 1998.

Preconditioning of the latissimus dorsi muscle in cardiomyoplasty: vascular delay or chronic electrical stimulation.

Improved efficiency of energy transfer to external work in chronic cardiomyoplasty based on the pressure-volume relationship.

Optimization of synchronization delay in latissimus dorsi dynamic cardiomyoplasty.

Muscle transformation in cardiomyoplasty: the effect of conditioning and mobilisation on perfusion, oxygenation and fatigue resistance in the latissimus dorsi muscle.

Growth potential and left ventricular diastolic function in cardiomyoplasty.

Mechanisms of cardiomyoplasty: comparative effects of adynamic versus dynamic cardiomyoplasty.

Health-related physical function and quality of well-being prior to and following cardiomyoplasty. A preliminary report.

Preserved skeletal muscle structure with modified electrical stimulation protocol in a cardiomyoplasty patient: a clinico-pathological report.

[Cardiac assistance using transformed striated skeletal muscle: cardiomyoplasty].

Variable effects of cardiomyoplasty on left ventricular function.

Stroke volume validation and energy evaluation for the dynamic training of skeletal muscle ventricles.