PMID: 3753244Jan 1, 1986Paper

Pathology of microhemocirculatory vessels in congenital heart defects with left-to-right shunt

Arkhiv patologii
T N NikolaevaL A Spivak

Abstract

Pathology of microcirculatory vessels of greater omentum and bulbar conjunctiva in children with congenital heart disease presenting with a left-to-right shunt was studied by biomicroscopic and morphologic methods. It has been shown that in this disorder of central hemodynamics the progressive reduction of true capillaries arises both in bulbar conjunctiva, and especially in the omentum. The authors believe that such deficit of tissue blood supply leads to reduction of density in terminal vascular networks and to the simplification of the construction of microcirculatory, in which the number of main microvessels (capillaries) increases, thus combining directly arterioles and venules, resulting in blood flow centralization and decrease of the efficiency of microcirculation.

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