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Table 2 Catecholamine myocardial necrosis – Frequency and extent in different conditions

From: Ultrasound imaging versus morphopathology in cardiovascular diseases. Myocardial cell damage

Source

Sudden/unexpected death

Brain hemorrhage

Transplant heart

AIDS

Congestive heart failure*

Cocaine

Head trauma

Electro cution

Carbon monoxide intoxication

 

Coronary

Changes

          

Number cases

25

34

27

46

38

144

26

45

21

26

 

no infarct+

 

survival ≤ 1 day >

    

survival ≤ 1 hour > 1

  
 

21

4*

 

14

13

    

26

19

  

Catecholamine necrosis

             

Present

15

4

34

12

12

39

25

126

11

1

8

1

3

Foci

27 ± 10

29 ± 10

3 ± 1

16 ± 5

37 ± 14

36 ± 9

4 ± 2

2 ± 0.3

4 ± 1

0.5

12 ± 6

8

1 ± 0.5

Myocytes

185 ± 48

1717 ± 698

34 ± 16

26 ± 29

108 ± 134

262 ± 47

13 ± 5

11 ± 2

11 ± 4

35

21 ± 12

46

5 ± 2

Cross band

2

1

8

9

4

14

19

65

11

1

8

1

3

Alveolar

11

2

16

3

6

17

6

25

-

-

-

-

-

Healing

2

1

10

-

2

8

-

36

-

-

-

-

-

  1. *Silent infarct in apparently normal subjects. **Hearts excised at transplantation.
  2. Foci and myocells quantified × 100 mm2 (standard error).
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