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The presbycardia phenotype: Cardiac remodeling and valvular degeneration in nonagenarians.

Aline IskandarSamer MowakeaaMayank SardanaTimothy P FitzgibbonsDennis A TigheMatthew W ParkerNikolaos KakourosDavid McManusGerard P Aurigemma
Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2018)
Herein, we provide the first comprehensive echocardiographic description of 'presbycardia'; concentric LVH, asymmetric septal hypertrophy, mitral and aortic valve calcification, and increased epicardial fat thickness. This pattern of findings may be increasingly seen as the population ages.
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