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- Title
Hypertrophy and Fibrosis in the Cardiomyopathy of Uremia—Beyond Coronary Heart Disease.
- Authors
Gross, Marie-Luise; Ritz, Eberhard
- Abstract
Cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in uremic patients. In contrast to previous opinion, coronary events account for a relatively small proportion of cardiac deaths, the most common causes being sudden death and heart failure. Against this background the current text will discuss noncoronary cardiac pathology, specifically the pathogenesis and the morphological findings caused by (pathological) cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac interstitial fibrosis and microvascular disease.
- Subjects
HEART diseases; HEART dilatation; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; KIDNEY diseases; CORONARY disease
- Publication
Seminars in Dialysis, 2008, Vol 21, Issue 4, p308
- ISSN
0894-0959
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-139X.2008.00454.x