[Variability in the diameter of the capillaries of the human heart during development]

Seventy-eight hearts from persons, who had not suffered any cardiovascular disorders during their life time, have been studied. Microcirculatory bed vessels are revealed by impregnation with silver nitrate after V. V. Kuprianov. The values of the capillary diameters obtained are mathematically treated using T. H. Bayes formula. Periods of individual development of the heart are defined when a high functional activity of the capillary bed of the auricles and ventricles is noted. Evidently, this is one of the factors contributing to development of the cardiac ischemic disease.