title: [Dysplastic intramyocardial arteries with subaortic septum in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy].
abstract: Abnormal, dysplastic intramyocardial arteries were reported in autopsied hearts of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. To elucidate their significance, the operatively-excised myectomy specimens of 24 patients with hypertrophic-obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), of 18 patients with valvular aortic stenosis and of 10 postmortem normal hearts were investigated. Eight patients with HOCM had dysplastic intramyocardial arteries (greater than 100 microns external diameter) as well as dysplastic arterioles (less than 100 microns external diameter). The value of the scores for the thickness and fibroelastosis of the media was nearly doubled, the tunica intima was frequently thickened, and the lumen was relatively reduced in dysplastic vessels. Neither in controls nor in aortic stenosis dysplastic arteries were found. Volume density of patchy fibrosis (scars) was increased in patients with dysplastic arterial vessels (HOCM II) (7.2 +/- 4.4 Vv%) (p less than or equal to 0.05) as compared with HOCM without dysplastic vessels (HOCM I) (0.8 +/- 2.3 Vv%), with aortic stenosis (0.9 +/- 1.6 Vv%) or with controls (0 Vv%), Patients with HOCM II were significantly (p less than or equal to 0.05) younger (30 +/- 13 years) than those with HOCM I (53 +/- 12 years), aortic stenosis (56 +/- 12 years), or controls (63 +/- 21 years). The anterior septum was significantly thicker in HOCM II (29 +/- 7 mm) than in HOCM I (22 +/- 4 mm), in aortic stenosis (19 +/- 3 mm), or in controls (12 +/- 2 mm). Syncopes were complained by about 75% (6/8) of patients in HOCM II, by 54% (9/16) in HOCM I, and by 44% (8/18) in aortic stenosis (not significant).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Abt. für Kardiologie, Pneumologie und Angiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schwartzkopff
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dieckerhoff
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Frenzel
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Schulte
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lösse
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Motz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hort
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Strauer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000473:pathology; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000473:pathology*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000473:pathology; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000473:pathology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Dysplastische intramyokardiale Arterien im subaortalen Septum von Patienten mit hypertroph-obstruktiver Kardiomyopathie.