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L-carnitine Improved the Cardiac Function via the Effect on Myocardial Fatty Acid Metabolism in a Hemodialysis Patient

Patients on hemodialysis often have carnitine deficiency. We herein report a woman who experienced the dramatic improvement of cardiac dysfunction after intravenous L-carnitine administration. We also investigated the myocardial fatty acid metabolism using (123)I-labeled β-methyl-p-iodophenyl-pentad...

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Autores principales: Kaneko, Mai, Fukasawa, Hirotaka, Ishibuchi, Kento, Niwa, Hiroki, Yasuda, Hideo, Furuya, Ryuichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6355401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30146554
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1055-18