Could garlic be an useful adjuvant therapy in adriamycin heart failure?
50 year old suffering from breast carcinoma, treated with adriamycin developed heart failure with 22.82% ejection fraction. Added garlic pearl to routine anti-failure measures for 9 months to achieve 51.6% ejection fraction.
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Department of Medicine, Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal. das_rabindranath@hotmail.com
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