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Two Autopsied Cases of Adult Type of Endocardial Fibroelastosis with Positive Results for Anti-heart Antibodies

山口医学 Volume 24 Issue 3 Page 195-202
published_at 1975-09
Title
循環抗心抗体が陽性であったEndocardinal Fibroelastosisの2剖検例
Two Autopsied Cases of Adult Type of Endocardial Fibroelastosis with Positive Results for Anti-heart Antibodies
Creators Yamamoto Toru
Creators Fujita Takaki
Creators Sadakane Akito
Creators Fukuda Shinji
Creators Ozaki Masaharu
Creators Iwamoto Setuko
Creators Matuzaki Masunori
Source Identifiers
Idiopathic cardiomyopathy defined as the myocardial degeneration and/or cardiac enlargement, which are not caused by cornary artery disease, hypertention, cor pulmononale, or rheumatic or congenital heart disease. The etiology and pathogenesis of this disease is yet unknown. However, several causative factors have been proposed for this disease in recent years. These are hereditary disorder, alcholism, infectious disease, especially for this disease in recent years. These are hereditary disorder, alcoholism, infectious disease, especially viral infectionm and autoimmune disease. We habe reported thst circulating anti-heart antibodies were found in almost half of the patients with chronic cor pulmonale and that of patients with myocardial infarction. In our previous papers the circulating anti-heart antibodies were found in 3 of 7 patients with idiopathic cariomyopathy. Two of these 3 patients with positive results for the anti-heart antibodies died and were autopsied. In this paper, the autopsy findings were characterized by diffuse endocardial and subendocardial fibroelatosis with sandwiched muscle fibers. The present cases belonged to the adult type of endocardial fibroelastosis. The relation of the curculating anti-heart antibodies to etiology and pathogenesis of this disease was briefly discussed.
Subjects
医学 ( Other)
Languages jpn
Resource Type journal article
Publishers 山口大学医学会
Date Issued 1975-09
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[ISSN]0513-1731
[NCID]AN00243156
Schools 医学部