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Case Reports
. 2013 May 13:2013:bcr2013009738.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-009738.

Reversibility of myocardial hypertrophy 8 years after adrenal adenoma excision and drugs and alcohol addiction withdrawal

Gian Piero Carboni  1
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Reversibility of myocardial hypertrophy 8 years after adrenal adenoma excision and drugs and alcohol addiction withdrawal

Gian Piero Carboni. BMJ Case Rep. .
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Figure 1
Abdominal CT—axial view: adrenal adenoma (red arrow).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Excised adrenal gland and the adenoma (black arrow).
Figure 3
Figure 3
Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) (2005). LVH reduction (2013). Septal wall (white arrows). LV, left ventricle;  LA, left atrium; LVDd, LV dimension in diastole; LVDs, LV dimension in systole; IVSd, interventricular septum thickness in diastole; LPWd, LV posterior wall thickness in diastole.
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