Carotid body denervation: too soon to get breathless about heart failure?

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¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: joyner.michael@mayo.edu.

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Blair D Johnson et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013.

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. 2013 Dec 24;62(25):2431-2432.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.08.718. Epub 2013 Sep 4.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: joyner.michael@mayo.edu.

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Keywords: autonomic function; breathing disorders; carotid body denervation; heart failure; mortality.

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