Body weight, morphometric cardiac characteristics, infarct area and pulmonary and hepatic congestion of sham-operated rats and rats with left ventricular dysfunction.

<p>Values are means ± SE; n = 8 for all groups. S-Sham, sedentary sham rats; T-Sham, training sham rats; S-CHF, sedentary chronic heart failure rats; T-CHF, training chronic heart failure rats. MW/BW, myocardial weight-to-body weight ratio; LVW/BW, left ventricle-to-body weight ratio and RVW/BW, right ventricle-to-body weight ratio. *<i>P</i><0.05 compared to all groups. ^†<i>P</i><0.05 compared to trained groups. ^‡<i>P</i><0.05 compared to Sham groups.</p><p>Body weight, morphometric cardiac characteristics, infarct area and pulmonary and hepatic congestion of sham-operated rats and rats with left ventricular dysfunction.