Publications by authors named "Danute Kazlauskaite"
Objective: The aim of the study was to detect changes in left ventricular cardiomyocyte size and shape in response to chronic ischemia and loss of cardiac tissue (myocardial infarction) during the course of ischemic heart disease (IHD).
Material And Methods: Left ventricular cardiomyocyte dimensions (diameter and length) were estimated histomorphometrically, and their cross-sectional area and volume were assessed in 85 males who died suddenly out of hospital (within 6 hours of the onset of the terminal event) due to the acute first (preinfarction IHD group, n=53, aged 48.6+/-2.
Objective: The aim of the study was to determine ventricular and atrial cardiometric parameters at preinfarction and postinfarction stage of ischemic heart disease.
Object And Methods: Cardiometric parameters (mass, endocardial surface area, the tracts of flow and outflow, etc.) of 132 men (mean age of 49.
Objective: The object of study was the type, frequency and extent, as well as correlation of atherosclerotic lesions in Kaunas population aged 20-69 years.
Results: The frequency and intimal area of raised atherosclerotic lesions (fibrous and complicated plaque and calcinosis) are age-dependent. The increase of raised lesions area seems to alter at different decades of life.
Objective: The aim of the investigation was to determine morphological criteria of acute myocardial injures in sudden ischemic death.
Material And Methods: Morphological investigation of the whole myocardium and coronary arteries in 170 victims of sudden out-of-hospital death due to ischemic heart disease was performed in the framework of the international WHO program "Myocardial Infarction Register in Population" and joint (at that time) USSR-USA project on sudden death.
Results: It was established, that out-of-hospital sudden death due to ischemic heart disease in all cases is related to irreversible myocardial injury: 92.