PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | cytomegalovirus infections |
| Phenotype | C0027051|myocardial infarct |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 25385851 | We have previously demonstrated that cytomegalovirus-seropositive patients with chronic myocardial infarction have increased telomere shortening in their cd8 t-cell compartment when compared with cytomegalovirus-seropositive healthy controls, indicating differences in the pathobiology of cytomegalovirus-driven immunosenescence in patients with chd.5,27 this effect was more pronounced in patients with more extensive infarction and more severely impaired left ventricular function. |
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