title: [Remodeling myocardium and skeletal muscle in chronic heart failure].
abstract: The spread and progression of chronic heart failure (CHF) is viewed presently from the standpoint of remodeling the myocardium and skeletal peripheral vessels. However, it is not clear yet, if such remodeling is a common adaptive mechanism in CHF for the myocardium and skeletal muscle. The study aim was to investigate the morphological changes in the myocardium and their interrelations with the skeletal muscle condition in CHF patients. For this purpose the biopsy materials of the left ventricle and pectoral muscles obtained from 36 patients with CHF (functional classes I-IV according to NYHA) of various etiologies as well as biopsy materials of the rectus abdominal muscle obtained from 8 patients without CHF were examined by light and electron microscopy. It was established that the development and progression of CHF is accompanied by similar changes in the morphology of the myocardium and skeletal muscle at the tissue, cellular and subcellular levels. As CHF aggravates, the manifestations of hypertrophy and heteromorphism of tissue fibers equally progress in the myocardium and skeletal muscle. A reliable correlation was detected between changes of cellular-stromal ratio in the myocardium and in the skeletal muscle (r = 0.57; p < 0.05).
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Kuznetsov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure