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Vulnerable Myocardial Interstitium in Patients With Isolated Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Sudden Cardiac Death: A Postmortem Histological Evaluation

BACKGROUND: Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is independently associated with increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Some animal models of LVH display specific alterations of the myocardial interstitium that could increase myocardial vulnerability to ventricular arrhythmias, but...

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Autores principales: Tamarappoo, Balaji K., John, Benjamin T., Reinier, Kyndaron, Teodorescu, Carmen, Uy-Evanado, Audrey, Gunson, Karen, Jui, Jonathan, Chugh, Sumeet S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23130141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.112.001511