Electronmicroscopic and histoenzymological researches regarding myocardial biology in some malformations

A number of 65 heart malformations, taken from intraoperatory biopsies at different degrees of congestive heart failure were histological, histoenzymological and electronmicroscopical analyzed. It was followed the pathogenesis of the lesions determined by the hemodynamic and hypoxic intracardiac disorders. These hadn't specificity and were disseminated in different evaluative degrees, being predominant in certain myocardial areas. Initially, cardiomyocytes hypertrophical changes appear, and also changes of the edematous matrix. Then, the nuclear lesions, the apoptosis processes and the hypoxic alterations increased to cytolysis. In succession, after the matrix edema was organized, immune lesions and myocardial sclerosis processes appeared. Out of the various lesions, we mention: the sarcoplasmatic fuchsinophilia and alcianophilia, the glycogenic depletion, the decrease of SDH, LDH reactions, the increase of the cytolitic enzymes, especially of the kathepsine B. Out of the ultrastructural changes, we mention: the mitochondrial, sarcotubular lesions and, the lysosomial activations, the interstitial organelles, including the natriuretic granules, synthesized in the ventricular myocytes, details regarding the matrix changes with tendency to fibrosclerosis.