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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 29.

Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2011 May 3;4(4):425–432. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.961326

Table 3.

Isolated Skinned Myocyte Fragment Morphometric Data

	Before LVAD	After LVAD	Nonfailing
Length (μm)	105 ± 21	86 ± 14^*	75 ± 10^†
Width (μm)	41 ± 6	33 ± 7^*	23 ± 3^†
Thickness (μm)	37 ± 6	24 ± 5^*	17 ± 4^†
Cross-sectional Area (μm²)	1247 ± 346	638 ± 254^*	330 ± 111^†
Volume (μm³)	138660 ± 63460	56923 ± 29858^*	25435 ± 10803^†

^*

P-value <0.05 for comparison between Before LVAD and After LVAD

^†

P-value <0.05 for comparisons between Nonfailing vs. Before LVAD and for Nonfailing vs. After LVAD.