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Thierry H Le Jemtel1, Rohan Samson2, Abhishek Jaiswal2

  • 1Tulane University Medical Center, 1430 Tulane Ave, SL-48, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA. lejemtel@tulane.edu.

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|July 30, 2017
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Bariatric surgeryLeft ventricular massLeft ventricular remodeling

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