Ischemic Heart Disease and Heart Weight

Vol. 70, No. 4, 1983

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Original Paper

Ischemic Heart Disease and Heart Weight
T. Romppanen, A. Seppä, H. Roilas

Department of Pathology, University of Kuopio, Finland

Address of Corresponding Author

Cardiology 1983;70:206-212 (DOI: 10.1159/000173595)

Key Words

Ischemic heart disease
Heart weight
Left ventricle hypertrophy
Myocardial infarction
Coronary atherosclerosis
Heart aneurysm

Abstract

Separate weights for heart ventricle walls and interventricular septa were analyzed in 110 hearts with autopsy findings of ischemic heart disease (coronary atherosclerosis, recent or old myocardial infarcts) and with no other cardiac or systemic causes of cardiac enlargement. In hearts with coronary atherosclerosis alone (without old or recent myocardial infarcts) no weight increase was observed in the left ventricle when compared to 29 controls. Patients having infarcts associated with nonstenosing atherosclerosis (less than 50% of the luminal diameter narrowed) of the coronaries had normal heart weights as well. On the contrary, infarcts associated with stenosing coronary sclerosis (narrowing more than 50%) showed significant signs of left ventricular weight increase, which is interpreted as compensatory heart hypertrophy. The greatest degree of hypertrophy was observed in hearts with left ventricular aneurysms.

Author Contacts

Timo Romppanen, Department of Pathology, University of Kuopio, PO Box 138, SF-70101 Kuopio 10 (Finland)

Article Information

Received: November 17, 1982
Accepted after revision: May 27, 1983
Published online: November 07, 2008
Number of Print Pages : 7

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