Cardiac Plasticity
Cardiac Plasticity
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Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society
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English
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Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society
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This review explains how the heart responds to physiologic or pathologic conditions. Exercise, pregnancy, and postnatal growth cause physiologic growth; neurohumoral activation, hypertension, and myocardial injury cause hypertrophic growth, which increases the risk of heart failure and malignant arrhythmia. Atrophy of the heart can arise from protr...
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Cardiac Plasticity
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_70429888
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_70429888
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0028-4793
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1533-4406
DOI
10.1056/NEJMra072139
