Autopsy of a 70-year-old man with hypertension and heart failure revealed an enlarged heart with slight focal interstitial fibrosis and mild to moderate coronary atherosclerosis.
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Case adds descriptive HF pathology without guiding care; leaves open fibrosis-atherosclerosis links in hypertension.
A 70-year-old man developed hypertension many years previously and had a bout with severe congestive heart failure 4 to 5 years before his death. Autopsy showed congestion and edema characteristic of heart failure, and enlarged heart, and slight focal interstitial left ventricular fibrosis, but only slight to moderate coronary atherosclerosis.
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Hackel et al. (1993) studied this question.
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