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Endomyocardial nitric oxide synthase and the hemodynamic phenotypes of human dilated cardiomyopathy and of athlete's heart.
Cardiovascular research - 1 Aug 2002
Bronzwaer Jean G F, Zeitz Christopher, Visser Cees A, Paulus Walter J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: In dilated cardiomyopathy and in athlete's heart, progressive LV dilatation is accompanied by rightward displacement of the diastolic LV pressure-volume relation. In dilated cardiomyopathy, an increase in diastolic LV stiffness can limit this rightward displacement thereby decreasing LV systolic performance. Because nitric oxide (NO) reduces diastolic LV stiffness, the present study relates diastolic...
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