Table 1

Main findings in 144 hearts with and 144 hearts without congestive heart failure
Source
 Total
 Age
 Heart
 Myocardial fibrosis
 Intermyocyte lymphocytic infiltration
 Catecholamine necrosis
 Colliquative myocytolysis

cases
 yrs
 weight
 trans.Ø
 Ant.LV
 no
 20%
 FI
 absent
 -Mn
 +Mn
 Foci
 +
 Foci
 Myocells
 no
 [% cells]



g
 mm
 mm
<
 >



×100 mm2



<25
 25–50
 >50
Ischemic heart
 63
 51 ± 8
 565 ± 108
 137 ± 14
 12 ± 4
 -
 11
 52
 17 ± 8
 9
 38
 17
 0.2 ± 0.05
 59
 1 ± 1
 10 ± 14
 1
 14
 39
 9
Dilated cardiom.
 63
 42 ± 12
 639 ± 155
 148 ± 15
 15 ± 4
 8
 54
 1
 2 ± 3
 8
 42
 18
 0.4 ± 0.18
 53
 2 ± 6
 12 ± 26
 3
 28
 28
 4
Valvulopathy
 18
 46 ± 8
 827 ± 179
 147 ± 15
 16 ± 4
 -
 14
 4
 4 ± 4
 3
 12
 7
 0.3 ± 0.09
 14
 1 ± 2
 5 ± 6
 1
 2
 14
 1
Total+CHF*
 144
 46 ± 9
 677 ± 147
 144 ± 15
 14 ± 4
 8
 79
 57
 8 ± 5
 20
 92
 42
 0.3 ± 0.09
 126
 1 ± 3
 9 ± 15
 5
 44
 81
 14
Chagas
 34
 49 ± 13
 464 ± 110
 114 ± 18
 15 ± 3
 9
 18
 7
 7 ± 8
 -
 34
 31
 13 ± 2
 34
 3 ± 6
 30 ± 51
 28
 6
 -
 -
AIDS
 38
 31 ± 10
 368 ± 67
 91 ± 21
 13 ± 3
 34
 4
 -
 0.04 ± 1
 14
 16
 9
 1.5 ± 0.7
 25
 4 ± 11
 13 ± 27
 33
 3
 2
 -
Brain hemorrhage
 27
 58 ± 12
 434 ± 91
 107 ± 15
 18 ± 7
 12
 15
 -
 0.4 ± 6
 15
 7
 -
 2 ± 1.8
 24
 26 ± 34
 67 ± 104
 26
 -
 1
 -
Head trauma normal
 45
 42 ± 17
 364 ± 47
 104 ± 15
 12 ± 6
 45
 -
 -
 -
 29
 11
 -
 5 ± 3
 9***
 10 ± 18
 23 ± 31
 45
 -
 -
 -
Total without CHF
 144
 45 ± 17
 408 ± 79
 104 ± 17
 15 ± 5
 100
 37
 7
 2 ± 5
 58
 68
 40
 5 ± 1.9
 92
 11 ± 17
 33 ± 53
 132
 9
 3
 -

* Heart excised at transplantation; ** Mn, myocyte necrosis non [-] or [+] associated with lymphocytes; *** Survival < 1 hour. No necrosis in instantaneous death; Ant LV, thickness anterior left ventricle; trans. Ø, transvers diameter

Baroldi et al. Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2007 5:5   doi:10.1186/1476-7120-5-5