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  1. Matthew E Harinstein1,
  2. James D Flaherty2,
  3. Andrew P Ambrosy3,
  4. Gregg C Fonarow4,
  5. Robert O Bonow2,5,
  6. Mihai Gheorghiade2,5
  1. 1Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  2. 2Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  3. 3Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
  4. 4Department of Medicine, Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
  5. 5Department of Medicine, Section of Experimental Therapeutics, Center for Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  1. Correspondence to Professor Mihai Gheorghiade, Center for Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 645N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1006, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; m-gheorghiade{at}northwestern.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2011-301231

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