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Cardiac fibrosis in the elderly, normotensive athlete: case report and review of the literature
BACKGROUND: Cardiac fibrosis occurs with normal aging, but the extent of this process and its effect on cardiac function is unknown. Fibrosis in the nonhypertensive elderly patient is thought to be due to decreased degradation, and not increased deposition, of collagen. The cause of this decreased d...
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BioMed Central
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2277381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18353184 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-3-12 |