1. Neurohormonal response to left ventricular reconstruction surgery in ischemic cardiomyopathy 
Soren Schenk, MD, Patrick M McCarthy, MD, Randall C Starling, MD, MPH, Katherine J Hoercher, RN, Melanie D Hail, BSN, Yoshio Ootaki, MD, PhD, Gary S Francis, MD, Kazuyoshi Doi, MD, James B Young, MD, Kiyotaka Fukamachi, MD, PhD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 128, Issue 1, Pages (July 2004)
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2. Figure 1
NYHA functional class (mean) before and after surgery (n = 15). Time of postoperative follow-up varied from 3 months (5 patients) to 12 months (10 patients). No difference was observed between groups. NYHA FC, New York Heart Association functional class.
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3. Figure 2
NE, A-II, and PRA profiles before and after surgery (n = 10). Considerable improvements of neurohormones were observed during follow-up. Of note, patient 6 experienced only a modest decrease of norepinephrine, corresponding to an improvement of NYHA class IV before surgery to class III at 1 year after surgery.
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