Cardiac Myocardial Disease States Cause Left Ventricular Remodeling with Decreased Contractility and Lead to Heart Failure;Interventions by Coronary Arterial Bypass Grafting and Surgical Ventricular Restoration Can Reverse LV Remodeling with Improved Cont

Dhanjoo N. Ghista1, Liang Zhong2, Leok Poh Chua3, Ghassan S. Kassab4, Yi Su5 and Ru San Tan2 1Department of Graduate and Continuing Education, Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts, 2Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre, 3School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 4Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, 5Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 1,4USA 2,3,5Singapore

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