Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy Reverses Ischemia-Related Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Remodeling: Molecular-Cellular and Functional Assessment

• Morgan Fu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan Fu, Cheuk-Kwan Sun

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Cheuk-Kwan Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan Fu, Cheuk-Kwan Sun

  Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Yu-Chun Lin,

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Translational Research in Biomedical Sciences, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Ching-Jen Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chiung-Jen Wu,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Sheung-Fat Ko,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Sarah Chua,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Jiunn-Jye Sheu,

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chiang-Hua Chiang,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

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• Pei-Lin Shao,

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Steve Leu ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Translational Research in Biomedical Sciences, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Hon-Kan Yip

  * E-mail: han.gung@msa.hinet.net

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Translational Research in Biomedical Sciences, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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