Diabetic cardiomyopathy in Zucker diabetic fatty rats: the forgotten right ventricle
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cardiovascular Diabetology
- Vol. 9 (1) , 25
Abstract
In patients with myocardial infarction or heart failure, right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is associated with death, shock and arrhythmias. In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, structural and functional alterations of the left ventricle (LV) are highly prevalent, however, little is known about the impact of diabetes on RV characteristics. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether LV changes are paralleled by RV alterations in a rat model of diabetes.Keywords
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