General
and Systemic Histopathology, C601&C602
Slide 54: Heart with myocarditis
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Not a lot here grossly
to tell you what's going on. Be sure to look carefully at all parts
of the tissue, but the inflammatory infiltrate is easiest to see in the
perivascular connective tissue of the myocardium.
See this slide with the
virtual microscope.
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Look around the smaller
vessels of the myocardium for the inflammation in this slide. You
should see an infiltrate composed predominately of chronic inflammatory
cells. This condition was most likely of viral origin. I noticed in the
walls of some of the vessels a pink fibrillary material like amyloid, but
doubt that is what it is. |
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