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Arnold S Baas, MD, FACC, FACP Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Fellowship Director for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Ahmanson UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Heart Transplant Program, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Arnold S Baas, MD, FACC, FACP is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, American Society of Echocardiography, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

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Weiyi Tan, MD Fellow in Adult Congenital Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine

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The authors and editors of Medscape Reference gratefully acknowledge the contributions of previous authors Stacy D Fisher, MD; Martin Englehardt, MD, PhD; Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD, FACC; and Roger Vermilion, MD to the development and writing of this article.

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