General and Systemic Histopathology, C601&C602
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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. |