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Br Heart J. 1987 May; 57(5): 458–461. | PMCID: PMC1277200 |
Suppressor T lymphocyte function in patients with idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy. P J Lowry, M D Gammage, T A Gentle, M I Baynham, R A Thompson, and W A Littler Abstract Suppressor T lymphocyte function was examined in 11 patients with idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy and in 11 age and sex matched patients with a similar degree of heart failure resulting from ischaemic heart disease. Suppressor T lymphocyte function was also assessed in a control population of 11 normal subjects. Suppressor T lymphocyte function was reduced in both groups of patients with heart failure but not significantly, and a wide range of suppression was demonstrated in all groups. These data do not support the hypothesis that there is a defect in T lymphocyte function in patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, but they do suggest that there may be a non-specific reduction in T lymphocyte suppressor function associated with heart failure in general. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (591K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References. These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article. - Goodwin JF, Oakley CM. The cardiomyopathies. Br Heart J. 1972 Jun;34(6):545–552. [PubMed]
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