Pathophysiologic role of myocardial apop
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Antonio Abbate; Giuseppe GL Biondi-Zoccai; Alfonso Baldi
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Left ventricular (LV) remodeling and heart failure (HF) complicate acute myocardial infarction (AMI) even weeks to months after the initial insult. Apoptosis may represent an important pathophysiologic mechanism causing progressive myocardiocyte loss and LV dilatation even late after AM