title: [Pathologico-anatomic changes of the myocardium in febrile schizophrenia].
abstract: During the autopsies of 12 young (18 to 30 years) patients with febrile schizophrenia a heart dissection has been specially designed so as to improve the evaluation of the heart muscle state. In 11 cases this technique allowed the author to identify the extended infarction sites in the left ventricle myocardium. These were triangular in shape with the basis turned towards the interventricular septum. Histologically, these sites were identified as ischemic prenecrotic myocardial changes. The findings are considered as major causes of the patients' death which were not mentioned in their postmortem reports because they were masked by severity of the patients' general somatic status.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Zuev
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D009336:Necrosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Patologoanatomicheskie izmeneniia miokarda pri febril'noĭ shizofrenii.