Table 1.

Main findings in 144 hearts with and 144 hearts without congestive heart failure

Source	Total	Age	Heart			Myocardial fibrosis				Intermyocyte lymphocytic infiltration				Catecholamine necrosis			Colliquative myocytolysis
	cases	yrs	weight	trans.Ø	Ant.LV	no	20%		FI	absent	-Mn	+Mn	Foci	+	Foci	Myocells	no	[% cells]
			g	mm	mm		<	>					×100 mm2					<25	25–50	>50
Ischemic heart	63	51 ± 8	565 ± 108	137 ± 14	12 ± 4	-	11	52	17 ± 8	9	38	17	0.2 ± 0.05	59	1 ± 1	10 ± 14	1	14	39	9
Dilated cardiom.	63	42 ± 12	639 ± 155	148 ± 15	15 ± 4	8	54	1	2 ± 3	8	42	18	0.4 ± 0.18	53	2 ± 6	12 ± 26	3	28	28	4
Valvulopathy	18	46 ± 8	827 ± 179	147 ± 15	16 ± 4	-	14	4	4 ± 4	3	12	7	0.3 ± 0.09	14	1 ± 2	5 ± 6	1	2	14	1
Total+CHF*	144	46 ± 9	677 ± 147	144 ± 15	14 ± 4	8	79	57	8 ± 5	20	92	42	0.3 ± 0.09	126	1 ± 3	9 ± 15	5	44	81	14
Chagas	34	49 ± 13	464 ± 110	114 ± 18	15 ± 3	9	18	7	7 ± 8	-	34	31	13 ± 2	34	3 ± 6	30 ± 51	28	6	-	-
AIDS	38	31 ± 10	368 ± 67	91 ± 21	13 ± 3	34	4	-	0.04 ± 1	14	16	9	1.5 ± 0.7	25	4 ± 11	13 ± 27	33	3	2	-
Brain hemorrhage	27	58 ± 12	434 ± 91	107 ± 15	18 ± 7	12	15	-	0.4 ± 6	15	7	-	2 ± 1.8	24	26 ± 34	67 ± 104	26	-	1	-
Head trauma normal	45	42 ± 17	364 ± 47	104 ± 15	12 ± 6	45	-	-	-	29	11	-	5 ± 3	9***	10 ± 18	23 ± 31	45	-	-	-
Total without CHF	144	45 ± 17	408 ± 79	104 ± 17	15 ± 5	100	37	7	2 ± 5	58	68	40	5 ± 1.9	92	11 ± 17	33 ± 53	132	9	3	-

* Heart excised at transplantation; ** Mn, myocyte necrosis non [-] or [+] associated with lymphocytes; *** Survival < 1 hour. No necrosis in instantaneous death; Ant LV, thickness anterior left ventricle; trans. Ø, transvers diameter