What is it about?
Heart failure induces brain damage and cognitive impairment, which frequently attenuates the effects of treatment. We did this study to clarify whether heart failure patients without cognitive impairment are at risk of developing dementia.
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Why is it important?
Solution of cognitive impairment can be a new approach for the treatment of heart failure.
Perspectives
This paper is my first step of this theme. I appreciate discussants for providing important opinions at scientific meetings. I hope this paper can raise a question about the relationship between failing heart and impaired brain.
Tomomi Meguro
International University of Health and Welfare, Ichikawa Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Atrophy of the parahippocampal gyrus is prominent in heart failure patients without dementia, ESC Heart Failure, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.12192.
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