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

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Oct;9(10):e005541. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.005541.

Author

Rohan Dharmakumar¹

Affiliation

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.

PMID: 27894072
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.005541

No abstract available

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

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Chelation Therapy*
Heart Failure
Humans
Infarction*
Iron
Myocardial Infarction

Substances

Iron