Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy: a pathophysiological review of circulatory dysfunction in liver disease
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Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy: a pathophysiological review of circulatory dysfunction in liver disease.
The systemic circulation in patients with cirrhosis is hyperdynamic with an increased cardiac output and heart rate and a reduced systemic vascular resistance as the most pronounced alterations. The concomitant cardiac dysfunction has recently been termed "cirrhotic cardiomyopathy", which is an entity different from that seen in alcoholic heart muscle disease. Clinically, these patients present...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0007-0769
DOI: 10.1136/heart.87.1.9