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The heart of an individual is in constant danger from the onset of fetal life, through adolescence, middle age and in senility. Efforts to prevent or manage all these risks of cardiac structure and function are constantly progressing depending on the collaboration of all scientific disciplines. Thus, instead of this incidental cardiac “protection”, the term “myocardial preservation” is proposed.

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Cokkinos, D.V. (2019). Introduction. In: Cokkinos, D. (eds) Myocardial Preservation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98186-4_1

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