The physician has told a patient that her heart has hypertrophied because of damage to her heart when she had her heart attack.How should the nurse explain the damage to the heart to help the patient understand what has happened?
A) The cells in her heart have become larger in response to the loss of heart tissue.
B) The cells in her heart have changed from contractive muscle cells into scar tissue.
C) Some of her heart cells have decreased in size because of the loss of normal cells.
D) The number of heart cells has increased to compensate for the cells that died during her heart attack.
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