Metabolic disorders of cardiac muscle in alcoholic and smoke cardiomyopathy.

The acute and prolonged effects of alcohol and smoking on the oxidative and energy processes of cardiac muscle in experimental animals were studied at the subcellular level. The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged. The prolonged effect of alcohol (for a period of 14 days) resulted in a decrease in oxidative processes as well as in glycolytic activity with a subsequent decline in myocardial ATP and CP levels. Smoking led to a significant decrease in oxidative and total bioenergetic processes of cardiac muscle mitochondria both after acute and prolonged smoking. This metabolic disorder is localized in the terminal segment of the respiratory chain of the mitochondria at the level of cytochrome oxidase. The authors conclude that the above-mentioned disorders may play a role in the development of heart failure on the basis of alcoholic or smoke cardiomyopathy.