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subendocardial

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subendocardial /sub·en·do·car·di·al/ (sub″en-do-kahr´de-al) beneath the endocardium.
subendocardial [sub″en-do-kahr´de-al]
beneath the endocardium.

subendocardial
beneath the endocardium.

subendocardial coat
layer of loose connective tissue beneath the endocarium.
subendocardial fibrosis
may be present at birth or acquired as a result of prolonged dilatation or as a result of persistent local turbulence as in the jet lesions caused by leaking cardiac valves.
subendocardial mineralization
may accompany subendocardial fibrosis or muscular degeneration or in association with persistent hypercalcemia or uremia.


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Examples include hypothyroidism, ovarian cancer, and acute subendocardial myocardial infarction.
Since repolarization normally proceeds in an epicardial-to-endocardial direction, delayed recovery in the subendocardial region due to ischemia does not reverse the direction of repolarization, but merely lengthens it.
On the contrary, the second group of previous studies consists of those, which have found that heart rate and probably metabolic work create the conditions necessary for subendocardial ischemia (14) and in fact they concluded that heart rate was related to ischemia.
 
 
 
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