In a family with congestive cardiomyopathy, autopsy of 3 cases revealed characteristic interstitial fibrosis with high elastic tissue content, long-standing arrhythmia, and cerebrovascular accidents.
Case Report (n=6)
Describes a familial form of congestive cardiomyopathy characterized by interstitial fibrosis, long-standing arrhythmia, and cerebrovascular accidents.
In this family with congestive cardiomyopathy the lesion, a characteristic interstitial fibrosis with a high elastic tissue content, was defined at autopsy in 3 cases, and 3 further members may have been affected. The cases defined at autopsy all had long-standing arrhythmia and had suffered a cerebrovascular accident, probably secondary to endocardial fibroelastosis. The possibility that the myocardial cell changes may have been secondary to those in the interstitium is discussed. Ultrastructural X band changes were demonstrated 5 1/2 and 26 h postmortem.
Hartveit et al. (Fri,) conducted a case report in Congestive cardiomyopathy (n=6). Familial congestive cardiomyopathy was evaluated on Autopsy findings (interstitial fibrosis, cerebrovascular accident). In a family with congestive cardiomyopathy, autopsy of 3 cases revealed characteristic interstitial fibrosis with high elastic tissue content, long-standing arrhythmia, and cerebrovascular accidents.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: