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Clinical Observations on Stress and Cardiomyopathy

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Stress and Heart Disease

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 45))

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Cardiomyopathy is defined as ‘heart muscle disease of unknown cause’.

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Goodwin, J.F. (1985). Clinical Observations on Stress and Cardiomyopathy. In: Beamish, R.E., Singal, P.K., Dhalla, N.S. (eds) Stress and Heart Disease. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 45. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2587-1_16

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