PMID: 8965049Jan 1, 1996Paper

Erythrocyte rheology and heart hypertrophy in diabetes mellitus

Journal des maladies vasculaires
P ValensiM Garnier

Abstract

Reduced red cell filtration and increased aggregation have been reported in diabetic patients. Heart enlargement is a classical complication of high blood pressure but is also frequently encountered in diabetics. The aim of this work was to explore the relationship between rheological disorders and heart enlargement in diabetics and in an animal model of genetically diabetic rats. 1. Among a series of 92 patients with insulin-dependent or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, silent myocardial ischemia was evidenced in 28. Coronarography in 24 of these patients was strictly normal in 15. In the patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries, the coronary reserve was perturbed by intracoronary injection of papaverine. The left ventricular mass was normal in 79 patients. In patients with silent myocardial ischemia and angiographically normal coronary arteries, there was a positive correlation between left ventricular mass and red cell filtration index using the Hanss hemorheometer (n = 8, r = 0.954, p = 0.001). 2. Red cell stiffness was studied sequentially from 3 to 18 months in diabetic rats Goto Kakisaki (GK). In these rats, cardiac index (heart weight/body weight) was significantly higher than that in Wistors cont...Continue Reading

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