Thrombi and Neutrophils

Thrombi and neutrophils.

Monocytes and neutrophils expressing myeloperoxidase occur in fibrous caps and thrombi in unstable coronary plaques

BACKGROUND Myeloperoxidase (MPO) -containing macrophages and neutrophils have been described at sites of plaque rupture. The presence of these cells in precursor lesions to acute rupture (thin cap atheroma, or vulnerable plaque) and within thrombi adjacent to ruptures has not been described, nor an association with iron-containing macrophages within unstable plaques. METHODS We studied 61 acu...

Bacterial Endocarditis and Mural Thrombi

EMBOLIC phenomena occur with such frequency in the course of bacterial endocarditis as to constitute a cardinal diagnostic feature of this disease. However, it has been noted that the resultant infarcts are less often septic than would be expected if the emboli originated from the infected valvular vegetations.' A previous study of this apparent paradox showed that it is the nonbacterial thromb...

Occlusive auricular thrombi.

The literature on occlusive thrombi of the auricles has been reviewed in order to identify the symptom complex attributed to this condition. The clinicopathological findings are presented in four new cases which fit this symptom complex. Two cases are notable in that one is that of a ball thrombus occurring in the absence of mitral stenosis and another the first reported case of pedunculated th...

Aplastic anemia with platelet thrombi.

7’. K., a 67 year old white female, was admitted to the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Southern Division, on September 6, 1949, with the chief complaint of fever and soremness of the sisouthi and gums. She was ap )areIit1y well until two weeks before admissioni when she developed a cough, sore throat amid a mild coryza. Shse was treated at home with aspirin, phemsacetins, co(leimse, caffeine, ...