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Apoptosis in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Diabetes: A Feature of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy?
1 Sept 2007
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has been suggested to be a consequence of a prior viral infection leading to a chronic inflammatory and immunological reaction that leads to a structural and functional deterioration of the heart. Nevertheless, the results of present studies are conflicting, regarding the natural course of heart diseases associated with detection of viral genome and inflammation. On the...
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