脂肪酸代謝の放射性医薬品である123 I BMIPPは,日本で欧米に先駆けて臨床応用が実現した薬剤であり,日本でも多彩な研究が行われてきた.心筋におけるATP産生 の主要な経路は脂肪酸によるものであり,123 I BMIPPは 虚血に感度の高い薬剤として利用されている.(第46回 河口湖心臓討論会 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/shinzo/45/3/45_364/_pdf/-char/ja)
“If an old man’s heart relaxes slowly, his capacity for physical exertion is thus limited, even though the systolic contractions were still like those of youth.”(老人の心臓がゆっくりと拡張するなら,たとえ収縮能が若い人と同じであっても運動能力は制限されるであろう.)1923 年の Physiological Review に載っている Henderson の言葉である.90 年以上前に高齢化社会における拡張不全の出現を予言していたのである.(拡張不全とはどのような心不全のことをいうのでしょうか? 拡張不全の疫学)
The term “remodeling” was used for the first time in 1982 by Hockman and Buckey, in a myocardial infarction (MI 心筋梗塞) model. This term was aimed to characterize the replacement of infarcted tissue with scar tissue.1 Janice Pfeffer was the first researcher to use the term remodeling in the current context, to describe the progressive increase of the left ventricular cavity in experimental model of MI in rats.2 The term was then used in some scientific articles on morphological changes following acute MI. In 1990, Pfeffer and Braunwald published a review on cardiac remodeling following MI, and the term was adopted to characterize morphological changes after infarction, particularly increase in the left ventricle.3 However, in the following years, the term “remodeling” has also been used to describe different clinical situations and pathophysiological changes. For this reason, in 2000, a consensus from an international forum on cardiac remodeling was published, which defined cardiac remodeling as a group of molecular, cellular and interstitial changes that clinically manifest as changes in size, shape and function of the heart resulting from cardiac injury.4 Although two types of cardiac remodeling were recognized during the forum – physiological (adaptive) remodeling and pathological remodeling – this article focuses on deleterious, pathological cardiac remodeling. (Cardiac Remodeling: Concepts, Clinical Impact, Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Pharmacologic Treatment Arq Bras Cardiol. 2016 Jan; 106(1): 62–69.)
JAMA Netw Open . 2020 Aug 3;3(8):e2012749. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12749. Comparison of Heart Team vs Interventional Cardiologist Recommendations for the Treatment of Patients With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease 論文紹介:実臨床の場においてこうしたチームが有機的に機能することは、日本でも米国でもなかなか困難とされる。今回取り上げる論文(JAMA Netw Open 2020; 3: e2012749)では、こうした問題にスポットライトを当てて検討を行っている(このような叙述的な内容を扱う学術論文は極めて珍しいこともあり、スポットを当てさせていただいた)。(メディカルトリビューン)