to investigate whether pressure-overloaded left ventricular hypertrophy is associated with changes in tissue composition of left ventricular subendocardial ( endo ) and subepicardial ( epi ) myocardium , we studied post-mortem 19 normal hearts , 17 hearts of patients with systemic hypertension , and 5 hearts of patients with aortic stenosis .
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