Cardiac dysfunction and development of heart failure.
A major consequence of chronic cardiac dysfunction is chronic overload of contractile myocardium. Various aetiologies, in reaction to this, may induce compensatory mechanisms consisting of excentric (dilatation) and concentric hypertrophy. Chronic left ventricular dysfunction is caused most frequent...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1993
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