Impact of Thoracic Surgery on Cardiac Morphology and Function in Small Animal Models of Heart Disease: A Cardiac MRI Study in Rats

• Peter Nordbeck ,

  * E-mail: nordbeck_p@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Leoni Bönhof,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Karl-Heinz Hiller,

  Affiliation Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Sabine Voll,

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Physics V, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Paula Arias-Loza,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Lea Seidlmayer,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Tatjana Williams,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Yu-Xiang Ye,

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Physics V, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Daniel Gensler,

  Affiliations Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Department of Experimental Physics V, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Theo Pelzer,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Georg Ertl,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Peter M. Jakob,

  Affiliations Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Department of Experimental Physics V, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Wolfgang R. Bauer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfgang R. Bauer, Oliver Ritter

  ¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Oliver Ritter

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfgang R. Bauer, Oliver Ritter

  ¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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