Better Myocardial Function in Aortic Stenosis with Low Left Ventricular Mass: A Mechanism of Protection against Heart Failure Regardless of Stenosis Severity?

About one-tenth to one-third of patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) do not develop left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Intriguingly, the absence of LVH despite severe AS is associated with lower prevalence of heart failure (HF), which challenges the classical notion of LVH as a beneficial comp...

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Published in:J Clin Med
Main Authors: Chyrchel, Bernadeta, Bolt, Klaudiusz, Długosz, Dorota, Urbańska, Anna, Nowak-Kępczyk, Małgorzata, Bałata, Joanna, Rożanowska, Agnieszka, Czestkowska, Ewa, Kruszelnicka, Olga, Surdacki, Andrzej
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: MDPI 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6912368/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31683977
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8111836
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