Myocardium - Pathology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Micro-positron emission tomography in the evaluation of Trypanosoma cruzi-induced heart disease: Comparison with other modalities.

30 Oct 2009 Noninvasive assessment of cardiac structure and function is essential to understand the natural course of murine infection with Trypanosoma cruzi. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and echocardiography have been used to monitor anatomy and function; ... Read more...

Improved myocardial perfusion and thickening after off-pump revascularization: 5-year follow-up.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Late improvements in myocardial perfusion and thickening after off-pump revascularization were evaluated during a 5-year follow-up by myocardial single photon emission computed tomography. METHODS: Between 2001 and 2003, 68 patients who ... Read more...

Acute methadone treatment reduces myocardial infarct size via the delta-opioid receptor in rats during reperfusion.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Methadone is an opioid agonist often given to manage acute and chronic pain. We sought to determine whether methadone compared with morphine dose dependently reduces myocardial infarct size (IS) and whether the mechanism is delta-opioid ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Myocardium - Pathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Micro-positron emission tomography in the evaluation of Trypanosoma cruzi-induced heart disease: Comparison with other modalities. 30 Oct 2009
• Improved myocardial perfusion and thickening after off-pump revascularization: 5-year follow-up. 30 Oct 2009
• Acute methadone treatment reduces myocardial infarct size via the delta-opioid receptor in rats during reperfusion. 30 Oct 2009
• [A diagnosis which requires biopsy] 20 Oct 2009
• [A patient with aortic stenosis and reduced left ventricular function] 20 Oct 2009
• Melanocyte-like cells in the heart and pulmonary veins contribute to atrial arrhythmia triggers. 10 Oct 2009
• Suppression of phosphoinositide 3-kinase prevents cardiac aging in mice. 10 Oct 2009
• New insights into cardiac aging. 10 Oct 2009
• Assessment of microcirculatory remodeling with intracoronary flow velocity and pressure measurements: validation with endomyocardial sampling in cardiac allografts. 3 Oct 2009
• Absence of thrombospondin-2 causes age-related dilated cardiomyopathy. 3 Oct 2009
• Layered implantation of myoblast sheets attenuates adverse cardiac remodeling of the infarcted heart. 29 Sep 2009
• The outflow tract in transposition of the great arteries: an anatomic and morphologic study. 29 Sep 2009
• Interaction of left ventricular geometry and myocardial ischemia in the response of myocardial deformation to stress. 29 Sep 2009
• Utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of Anderson-Fabry disease. 27 Sep 2009
• Involvement of innate and adaptive immunity in a murine model of coronary arteritis mimicking Kawasaki disease. 26 Sep 2009
• Allogenic stem cell therapy improves right ventricular function by improving lung pathology in rats with pulmonary hypertension. 23 Sep 2009
• Severe cardiac failure in a patient with multiple sclerosis following low-dose mitoxantrone treatment. 20 Sep 2009
• The alpha-1D Is the predominant alpha-1-adrenergic receptor subtype in human epicardial coronary arteries. 20 Sep 2009
• A high-fat diet increases adiposity but maintains mitochondrial oxidative enzymes without affecting development of heart failure with pressure overload. 16 Sep 2009
• Pathways to embryonic heart failure. 16 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Myocardium'

Definition: The muscle tissue of the HEART. It is composed of striated, involuntary muscle cells (MYOCYTES, CARDIAC) connected to form the contractile pump to generate blood flow.

Descriptor UI: D009206

Alternative terms: Myocardium; Cardiac Muscle; Muscle, Heart; Heart Muscle; Heart Muscles; Muscles, Heart; Myocardia; Muscle, Cardiac; Cardiac Muscles; Muscles, Cardiac;

Allowable Qualifiers: chemistry; cytology; enzymology; immunology; metabolism; pathology; secretion; ultrastructure;

Tree Number: A02.633.580; A07.541.704; A10.690.552.750;

Technical Notes: the heart as tissue, differentiated from the heart as a pump ( = HEART); Manual 21.48; ischemia = MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; inflammation = MYOCARDITIS