Bum Kee Hong ; Hyuck Moon kwon ; ki hyun byun ; dongsoo kim ; eui young choi ; tae soo kang ; seokmin kang ; kook jin chun ; yangsoo jang ; hyun-seung kim
Citation
Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, Vol.15(1) : 56-64, 2000
Cardiomyopathy, a popular diagnosis that always obscures more than it reveals, nevertheless has several characteristic histological features. These prominently include widespread focal myocardial fibrosis and associated hypertrophy of surviving cardiac myocyte. In fact, focal noninflammatory degeneration (not necrosis) has been demonstrated as a feature of many forms of cardiac hypertrophy. We hypothesized that this loss of myocardial cells in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP) may result from cell death by apoptosis.