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Plasticizer Interaction With the Heart: Chemicals Used in Plastic Medical Devices Can Interfere With Cardiac Electrophysiology

BACKGROUND: Phthalates are used as plasticizers in the manufacturing of flexible, plastic medical products. Patients can be subjected to high phthalate exposure through contact with plastic medical devices. We aimed to investigate the cardiac safety and biocompatibility of mono-2-ethylhexyl phthalat...

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Autores principales: Jaimes, Rafael, McCullough, Damon, Siegel, Bryan, Swift, Luther, McInerney, Daniel, Hiebert, James, Perez-Alday, Erick A., Trenor, Beatriz, Sheng, Jiansong, Saiz, Javier, Tereshchenko, Larisa G, Posnack, Nikki Gillum
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31248280
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCEP.119.007294