Digital Pathology for Analyzing Endomyocardial Biopsy Specimens

Rapid histological changes in endomyocardial biopsy specimens after myocarditis.

The course and response to treatment in acute lymphocytic myocarditis are conventionally monitored by endomyocardial biopsy performed every 3-12 weeks. A patient with a short history (five days) of acute myopericarditis of unknown aetiology presented in cardiogenic shock with evidence of severe systolic dysfunction on the echocardiogram. The initial biopsy specimen showed histologically unequiv...

[Endomyocardial biopsy].

Endomyocardial Biopsy

Examination of fragments of right or left ventricular endomyocardium recovered during cardiac catheterization (endomyocardial biopsy) remains an important tool in the detection of transplant rejection and identification of specific disease process that cause primary myocardial dysfunction . This chapter focuses on the currently available techniques for endomyocardial biopsy and reviews the dise...

Diagnostic value of endomyocardial biopsy for endomyocardial fibrosis

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a restrictive cardiomyopathy of unknown etiology. It is mainly prevalent in the tropical and subtropical countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) for EMF, and detect the relationship between Coxsackie virus B3 (CVB3) and EMF in the Chinese patients. The right ventricular EMB was performed in 18 patients...

Anatomic Pathology / PERIVASCULAR INFLAMMATION IN TEMPORAL ARTERY BIOPSY SPECIMENS

We retrospectively compared 81 temporal artery biopsy specimens demonstrating perivascular inflammation without evidence of temporal arteritis and 76 specimens demonstrating no inflammation. Patients with perivascular inflammation included 43 women (mean age, 71.2 years). Nineteen patients met the 1990 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the diagnosis of temporal arteritis. All ...