"Rusty Hearts": Is It Time to Rethink Iron Chelation Therapies in Post-Myocardial-Infarction Setting?

Affiliations

¹ From the Biomedical Imaging Research Institute and Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; and Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. rohandkumar@csmc.edu.

Editorial

Rohan Dharmakumar. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Oct.

. 2016 Oct;9(10):e005541.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.005541.

¹ From the Biomedical Imaging Research Institute and Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; and Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. rohandkumar@csmc.edu.

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Keywords: Editorials; heart failure; hospitalization; humans; inflammation; myocardial infarction.

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