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Myocardial stunning

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What is myocardial stunning and hibernation?

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193: Myocardial Stunning or Hibernating Myocardium

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What is myocardial stunning and hibernation? Intro

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Myocardial stunning (Medical Condition)

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Medical vocabulary: What does Myocardial Stunning mean

In cardiology, stunned myocardium is a state when some section of the myocardium shows a form of contractile abnormality. This is a segmental dysfunction which persists for a variable period of time, about two weeks, even after ischemia has been relieved. In this situation, while myocardial blood flow (MBF) returns to normal, function is still depressed for a variable period of time.