Extracardiac Neural Remodeling in Humans With Cardiomyopathy.

The article discusses a study that determined whether cardiac pathology is associated with remodeling of the stellate ganglia in humans. It observes that intramyocardial nerve sprouting after myocardial infarction is associated with ventricular arrythmias. The article also indicates that neuronal hypertrophy within left stellate ganglia is associated with chronic cardiomyopathy in humans and finds ganglionic and myocardial nerve sprouting and nerve density were not significantly different.