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PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
卷 210, 期 12, 页码 1018-1025出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2014.04.008
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Fatty heart; Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Triglyceride deposit; cardiomyovasculopathy (TGCV); Adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL); Autopsy
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- Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan [H21-031, H22-140, H23-035]
Lipid accumulation in the cardiac parenchyma has historically been known as fatty heart. Myocardial lipotoxicity and cardiac steatosis have been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetic mellitus (DM). Mutated adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL), a key catalytic enzyme of triglyceride, has been found to cause human triglyceride deposit cardiomyovasculopathy (TGCV). Nevertheless, the significance of fatty heart in the disease process is still unclear. Here, we investigated myocardial lipid deposition (LD) in 73 autopsy cases. Nile blue staining revealed seven cases (9.5%) showing LD with elevated tissue triglyceride content, all of which suffered from DM. Immunohistochemically, ATGL expression was preserved in all tested cases. Rates of myocardial infarction and heart failure were higher in LD/DM cases than in non-LD cases. Semi-quantitative histological analysis revealed no significant differences in the degree of myocardial hypertrophy, myofibrillar loss, fibrosis, small vascular disease, inflammation or fat invasion between LD/DM and non-LD cases. However, more severe histological damage was seen in DM cases than in non-DM cases. Our data suggest that DM is a major risk for fatty heart with myocardial LD based on recent autopsy cases. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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