title: [Morphological and histomorphometric characterization of the myocardium in patients with aorto-coronary venous bypass. An autopsy study].
abstract: Morphological and histomorphometric investigations were performed in 29 autopsy hearts from patients with aorto-coronary venous bypass. 14 of them (48%) had died of acute myocardial infarction or re-infarction and 9 (31%) of postoperative cardiac failure. Bypasses had been obstructed by thrombi in nearly 50% of those who died of infarction. Average heart weight of 548 +/- 128 g was found to be correlated with the left-ventricular myocardial cell diameter, but it did not reflect the extent of hypertrophy in chronically insufficient hearts. Stenotic coronary arteriosclerosis and increase in left-ventricular connective tissue in the myocardium to a level of 19.5 +/- 6.0 vol. % completed the pattern of severest cardiac damage and were of substantially adverse impact upon postoperative survival of patients thus affected.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologie der Medizinischen Fakultät, (CHarité), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, BRD.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stötzer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000473:pathology; D002423:Cause of Death; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D009929:Organ Size; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D012008:Recurrence
vernacular_title: Morphologische und histomorphometrische Charakterisierung des Myokards von Patienten mit aortokoronarem Venenbypass. Eine autoptische Studie.