Abstract
To study the glomerular morphological abnormalities in congestive heart failure (CHF), we analyzed 27 autopsy cases without other causes of renal disease. Their mean age was 59 years, and they showed mild prerenal azotemia. They had generally been treated with digitalis and diuretics, and a few of them with captopril or nifedipine. The abnormal glomerular findings of enlargement, hyperemia, and mesangial thickening were observed at high frequencies (61%, 64%, and 57%, respectively). They characteristically showed mesangiolysis (ML) by the findings of microaneurysms (81%) and mesangial degeneration (70%) such as loose reticular matrix and poor matrix area. In addition, glomerular infiltration of mononuclear leukocytes including macrophages was noted in 70% of the cases. Glomerular enlargement was not correlated with the grade of hyperemia, but it was correlated with the grade of ML index of % glomeruli with microaneurysms (F = 7.22, p < 0.004). There was an inverse relationship between the grades of mesangial thickening and of the ML index (P < 0.005). The number of glomerular leukocytes was positively correlated with mean glomerular size (P < 0.002) and with the ML index (P < 0.03). Notably, the glomerular macrophage-positive c...Continue Reading
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