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Obese Patients and Mechanical Circulatory Support: Weight Loss, Adverse Events, and Outcomes

Firas Zahr, Elizabeth Genovese, Michael A. Mathier, M. Shullo, K.L. Lockard, R. Zomak, Dennis M. McNamara, Yoshiya Toyoda, Robert L. Kormos, Jeffrey J. Teuteberg

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · 2011 · 41 citations · 17 references

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Obesity as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease: a 26-year follow-up of participants in the Framingham Heart Study.

Helen B. Hubert, M Feinleib, Patricia McNamara et al. · Circulation · 1983 · 4.3K citations · Full text

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Advanced Heart Failure Treated with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device

Mark S. Slaughter, Joseph G. Rogers, Carmelo A. Milano et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2009 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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Obesity and the Risk of Heart Failure

Satish Kenchaiah, Jane C. Evans, Daniel Levy et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2002 · 3K citations

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Clinical Implications of Obesity With Specific Focus on Cardiovascular Disease

Samuel Klein, Lora E. Burke, George A. Bray et al. · Circulation · 2004 · 928 citations

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Extended Mechanical Circulatory Support With a Continuous-Flow Rotary Left Ventricular Assist Device

Francis D. Pagani, Leslie W. Miller, Stuart D. Russell et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2009 · 872 citations

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