title: [The acromegalic heart disease (author's transl)].
abstract: The clinical and pathological findings of 3 patients with acromegalic heart disease are reported. In 2 of them no other causes of the cardiopathy could be recognized but a primitive involvement of the myocardium. The GH is responsible of cardiac hypertrophy without overload, which would shift towards progressive congestive heart failure. A possible depletion of intramyocardial cathecolamines is postulated in acromegalic heart disease as much as in cardiomegalies with pressure or volume overload.
mesh_terms: D000172:Acromegaly / Q000150:complications*; D000239:Adenoma, Acidophil / Q000150:complications; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000209:etiology; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: La cardiopatia acromegalica.