Open AccessThe Course of Heart Failure Development and Mortality in Rats with Volume Overload due to Aorto-Caval Fistula
Author(s) -
Vojtěch Melenovský,
Petra Škaroupková,
Jan Beneš,
Vera Torresova,
Libor Kopkan,
Luděk Červenka
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
kidney and blood pressure research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.806
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1423-0143
pISSN - 1420-4096
DOI - 10.1159/000331562
Subject(s) - volume overload , cardiology , heart failure , medicine , fistula , volume (thermodynamics) , surgery , physics , quantum mechanics
There are only few studies documenting the long-term outcome of aorto-caval fistula (ACF) in rats, a model of volume overload heart failure (HF). The aim of the present study was to describe HF-related morbidity and mortality, and to examine the relation between cardiac hypertrophy and survival.
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