[The pathogenesis of cardiovascular system lesions in patients with chronic acalculous cholecystitis].
As many as 42 patients with chronic noncalculous cholecystitis who ranged from 18 to 36 years old were studied for the left ventricular systolic-and-diastolic function and for humoral immunity. Signs of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction were revealed as were increased levels of complement-fixing antibodies to the tissues of the gallbladder and myocardium. It is suggested that one of the pathogenetic mechanisms of the abnormal changes in the cardiac muscle might be immune factors for there is a similarity between antigenic determinants of the gallbladder and myocardium tissues antigen.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000917:Antibody Formation; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology; D002769:Cholelithiasis; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male