Experimental Trypanosoma cruzi myocarditis: relative effects upon the right and left ventricles.
Experimental Trypanosoma cruzi myocarditis: relative effects upon the right and left ventricles.
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实验性克氏锥虫心肌炎:对右心室和左心室的相对影响。
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发表时间:
1969
影响因子:
6
通讯作者:
W. Abelmann
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作者:
R. Kumar;I. Kline;W. Abelmann
IN 1964 the characteristics and course of experimental heart disease in C3H mice produced by a strain of Trypanosoma cruzi (Colombian) were reported from this laboratory.2 Although relatively mild initially, subsequent passages of the parasite have seen this experimental cardiomyopathy become increasingly severe both in the acute and the chronic phase.3 In early passages congestive heart failure never occurred spontaneously but could be induced by certain interventions." After the 100th passage heart failure could be observed consistently. For the first time, then, an experental model of congestive heart failure of known natural cause became available for study. The present report characteries this model, analyzes the relative involvenent of the right and left ventricles, and discusses the implications for the pathogenesis of certain manifestation of Chagas' disease in man.