Short report
The hibernating heart: reversible left ventricular dysfunction in
chronic heart failure
Steven Burn, Mark Walters, John Caplin
Department of
Cardiology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Anlaby Road, Kingston-upon-Hull, HU3
2JZ, UK
Accepted 4 January
1999
A patient with severe heart failure secondary to coronary heart
disease is presented. Following investigation he was thought to have
significant areas of myocardial hibernation and was therefore treated
with coronary revascularisation, with major clinical benefit.
Keywords: heart failure; myocardial hibernation
© 1999 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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