Background: Myocardial edema is a common finding in congestive heart failure, transplant rejection, and cardiomyopathy. Although pathological alterations in the lymphatic morphology are part of the underlying disease, knowledge on these changes is limited. However, lymphatic morphology may be investigated by immunohistochemical staining for fms-like tyrosine 4 kinase (flt-4), which is specific for lymphatic endothelium in adult tissue.
Methods: We used myocardial tissue of ventricular out flow tract taken from five human semilunar valves harvested as allografts but unsuitable for implantation for analysis, performing immunohistochemical staining for flt-4 with a commercially available antibody. Lymphatic morphometry was completed according Gundersen method.
Results: Immunohistochemical staining for flt-4 resulted in successful labeling of lymph capillaries in adult human myocardium. Lymph capillary density was calculated as 50.7 +/- 12.5 per mm2 and average diameter was 3.7 +/- 0.7 microm. Conclusions. Lymph capillary morphology in human myocardium may be successfully determined by immunohistochemical staining for flt-4. Tissue samples as small as myocardial biopsies may be used for analysis. Using this method, morphological changes in myocardial lymphatics may be investigated in various cardiovascular diseases.
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