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Figure 4 Myocardial injury can lead to sodium and water retention, which can suppress the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systems (RAAS) and return cardiac index to a normal range. The dashed lines indicate the pathways of these feedback mechanisms. To exclude myocardial injury when these feedback mechanisms have normalized the RAAS and cardiac index would be a mistake.
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