Long-Term Structural and Functional Myocardial Adaptations in Healthy Living Kidney Donors: A Pilot Study

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Compensatory renal hypertrophy following unilateral nephrectomy (UNX) occurs in the remaining kidney. However, the long-term cardiac adaptive process to UNX remains poorly defined in humans. Our goal was to characterize myocardial structure and function in living kidney donors (...

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Autores principales: Bellavia, Diego, Cataliotti, Alessandro, Clemenza, Francesco, Baravoglia, Cesar Hernandez, Luca, Angelo, Traina, Marcello, Gridelli, Bruno, Bertani, Tullio, Burnett, John C., Scardulla, Cesare
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4640880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26556804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142103

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