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(Circulation. 1998;98:1699-1702.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.


Editorial

Activation of Matrix Metalloproteinases in the Failing Human Heart

Breaking the Tie That Binds

Douglas L. Mann, MD; ; Francis G. Spinale, MD, PhD

From the Cardiology Section, Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Houston, Tex, Baylor College of Medicine (D.L.M.) and the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (F.G.S.).

Correspondence to Francis G. Spinale, MD, PhD, Room 418 CSB, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC.


Key Words: Editorials • metalloproteinases • heart failure • remodeling

The process of left ventricular (LV) remodeling has been shown to be an important predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure. Therefore, identifying the cascade of molecular and cellular events that contribute to LV remodeling is likely to provide new and novel targets for preventing disease progression in heart failure. In this issue of Circulation, Li and colleagues1 report that changes in the relative abundance of tissue inhibitors of the metalloproteinases (TIMPs) occur with the development of end-stage human heart failure, thus raising the important possibility that alterations in the extracellular matrix of the failing heart may contribute to disease progression in heart failure. The purpose of this editorial was to place the findings of the study by Li et al, as well as those of recently published reports, in perspective with what we know about myocardial extracellular remodeling in heart failure.

LV Remodeling in Heart Failure

The phenotype of dilated cardiomyopathic disease in humans can be characterized as a disproportionate increase in the ratio of LV ventricular chamber radius to wall thickness, with no increase in sarcomere length. The increased ratio of LV chamber radius to wall thickness is accompanied by increased myocardial wall stress, which can in turn promote further dilation and reduced pump function. Taken together, these observations would suggest that significant myocardial remodeling must occur within the LV free wall to allow for the chamber dilation and wall thinning that occur during the progression to severe LV dilation. Although the canonical view of LV remodeling has held . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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