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Knowledge of ultrastructural changes in diseased human ventricular myocardium has increased considerably during recent years [1–5]. However, only a few studies have been made of the ultrastructural pathology of human atria [6–17]. Although to date investigations of the fine structure of normal human atrial myocardium [15, 18, 19] have been much less detailed than have those of atrial muscle of other mammals [20–23], there is general agreement that the ultrastructure of atrial muscle cells is similar in man and a number of other mammals [20–23]. This chapter describes light-microscopic and ultrastructural findings on operatively obtained left atrial biopsies from 14 patients with mitral valvular disease.
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Thiedemann, KU., Ferrans, V.J. (1978). Ultrastructure of Left Atrial Myocardium in Patients With Mitral Valvular Disease. In: Kaltenbach, M., Loogen, F., Olsen, E.G.J. (eds) Cardiomyopathy and Myocardial Biopsy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66772-5_12
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