Ventricular androgenic-anabolic steroid-related remodeling: an immunohistochemical study.
Rossana CecchiBarbara MuciacciaCostantino CiallellaNatale Mario Di LucaAkihiko KimuraCristina SestiliMizuho NosakaToshikazu KondoPublished in: International journal of legal medicine (2017)
In conclusion, the study indicates that, in very young subjects with chronic hypoxia-related alterations of the heart, signs of a heart failure in the other organs and a history of AAS abuse, death can be ascribed to progressive heart failure due to the direct apoptotic cardiac and endothelial changes produced by AAS.