A Family with Congestive Cardiomyopathy
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Cardiology
- Vol. 68 (4) , 193-200
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000173282
Abstract
In this family with congestive cardiomyopathy the lesion, a characteristic interstitial fibrosis with a high elastic tissue content, was defined at autopsy in 3 cases, and 3 further members may have been affected.The cases defined at autopsy all had longstanding arrhythmia and had suffered a cerebrovascular accident, probably secondary to endocardial fibroelastosis. The possibility that the myocardial cell changes may have been secondary to those in the interstitium is discussed. Ultrastructural Z band changes were demonstrated 5½ and 26 h postmortem.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Ultrastructural studies on the growth of filaments and sarcomeres in mechanically overloaded human heartsVirchows Archiv B Cell Pathology, 1976
- Familial CardiomyopathyCardiology, 1976