title: [The pathomorphology of the intra- and extraorganic neural apparatus of the heart in congenital defects].
abstract: Different components of the heart sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation were studied in 22 autopsy cases of congenital heart defects. Central efferent neurons in the lateral horns of the upper thoracic segments of the spinal cord and in the dorsal nucleus of the medulla oblongata are damaged stronger than the neurons of the upper neck and stellate sympathetic nodes and the heart intramural ganglia this resulting in the selective destruction of the preganglionic nervous conducting elements. It is suggested that the disturbance of the connection between the heart nervous structures and the central nervous system exerts a negative influence on its function.
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Nikolaeva
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Spivak
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006321:Heart / Q000294:innervation*; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000473:pathology*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010275:Parasympathetic Nervous System / Q000473:pathology; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Patomorfologiia intra- i ékstraorgannykh nervnykh priborov serdtsa pri vrozhdennykh ego porokakh.