title: Pathologic study of myocardial infarction of the right ventricle.
abstract: To evaluate pathologic features of myocardial infarction of the right ventricle (MI-RV), we analyzed 106 autopsy cases with transmural myocardial infarction (MI) (fresh in 46 cases and healed in 60). Anterior MI was observed in 47, posterior MI in 54 and lateral in 5. There were 13 cases (12%) with MI-RV (anterior in 1 case and posterior in 12), which included 10 cases with fresh MI and 3 with healed MI. All cases with MI-RV had associated transmural interventricular septal infarction. Of the 13 cases with MI-RV, 9 (69%) had right ventricular dilatation (RVD) and 2 had right ventricular hypertrophy. Extensive MI-RV (more than 1/3 of the right ventricle) was observed in 8 (89%) of those with RVD. Of 93 cases of MI without MI-RV, 14 (16%) had RVD. The incidence of RVD was greater in cases with MI-RV than in those without (p less than 0.005). All 12 cases with posterior MI-RV had significant (greater than or equal to 75%) narrowing of the right coronary artery (RCA), and 19 cases (87%) of those with posterior MI without MI-RV, had similar lesions. In conclusion, the incidence of RVD and significant narrowing of RCA was greater in cases with posterior MI-RV than in those with posterior MI.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokyo.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tomaru
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000473:pathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000473:pathology*; D009336:Necrosis