Selenium contributes to myocardial injury and cardiac remodeling in heart failure

heart failure Ioannis Alexanian , John Parissis , Dimitrios Farmakis ⁎, Chariklia Pantziou , Ignatios Ikonomidis , Ioannis Paraskevaidis , Sophia Ioannidou , Antonios Sideris , Dimitrios Kremastinos , John Lekakis , Gerasimos Filippatos a a Department of Cardiology, Athens University Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece b Biochemical Laboratory, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece c Second Department of Cardiology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece