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Skeletal Muscle Ultrastructural Alterations In Alcoholism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

B. Müller ,
H.J. Finol ,
I. Montes de Oca  and
A. Mayorca.
B. Müller
Affiliation:
Department of Human Phisiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Central University of Venezuela.
H.J. Finol
Affiliation:
Center for Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Sciences, Central University of Venezuela.
I. Montes de Oca
Affiliation:
Caracas University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine II, Central University of Venezuela
A. Mayorca.
Affiliation:
Department of Human Phisiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Central University of Venezuela.
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Two forms of muscular alterations have been described in alcoholic patients, one acute, the so called Hypokalemic alcoholic Myopathy; focal or diffuse pain, swelling, tenderness and weakness of skeletal muscle are the main clinical features, and the chronic one with proximal muscle weakness wich progresses slowly in a period of weeks or months Ultrastructurally myofibril disorganization and necrosis where described.

In this work we present a systematic study of skeletal muscle alterations in four alcoholic patients who attended the Department of Internal Medicine at Caracas University Hospital . The patients were males, ages between 56 and 62 years old, and presented chronic alcoholism with muscle weakness with a more distal distribution and polymyalgia. Biopsies were taken from quadriceps femorismuscle with a percutaneous neddle and processed for routine transmission electron microscopy.

Muscle fibers showed different degrees of atrophy with myofibril disorganization (Fig.l) and disappearence (Fig.2). Myonuclei were hyperchromatic and intermyofibrilar spaces were widened and exhibited abundant lipid droplets.

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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 5 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '99, Microscopy Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 33rd Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon August 1-5, 1999 , August 1999 , pp. 1162 - 1163
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