Results of endomyocardial biopsy--histological, histochemical and ultrastructural analysis.

Results of endomyocardial biopsy--histological, histochemical and ultrastructural analysis.

ALTHOUGH this technique of investigation has been practised for many years in Japan and reported by Konno, Sekiguchi and Sakakibara in 1971, it has only recently become,more widely used in Europe. So far, biopsy material from fifty-six patients*, thirty-nine of whom were suspected of suffering from a type of cardiomyopathy, have been examined. This paper concentrates on the diagnostic value whi...

Ultrastructural Morphometry of Endomyocardial Biopsy Samples

Background. The coronary microvasculature may be abnormal even in the presence of angiographically normal epicardial arteries. Abnormalities of small coronary vessels have been invoked as a cause of angina. Methods and Results. To quantitatively evaluate the morphology of capillaries in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) or the syndrome of angina and small vessel disease (SVD...

Histological, histochemical and ultrastructural study of slipped capital femoral epiphysis

PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to investigate the histological, histochemical and ultrastructural aspects of the proximal femoral growth plate in slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE). METHODS Eight core biopsies of the proximal femoral growth plate were performed during in situ epiphysiodesis in patients with SCFE that was at the pre-slipping stage in two cases and at the mild slipp...

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...

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