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...

In order to investigate the relationship between the synovial inflammatory response and lysosomal enzyme activity in osteoarthritis, synovial specimens obtained from 19 osteoarthritic patients and control specimens from 10 normal joints were analysed for cathepsin D and acid phosphatase enzyme levels. In estimating enzyme activities methods previously developed for quantitative enzyme determina...

A clinical case of acquired unilateral cryptorchidism after herniotomy was described. Extensive degenerative changes were histologically observed not only in the cryptorchid testis but also in the scrotal one, and were regarded as underlying processes of sterility in the case of unilateral cryptorchidism . In experimental unilateral cryptorchidism in dogs, histologically demon strable spermatog...

Dryness of the mouth, taste disturbance or misswallowing may appear due to physiological changes of tongue especially in old aged person. The purpose of this study is to investigate histological changes related to aging in the human tongue, qualitatively and quantitatively. The samples were collected from 100 autopsy-cases without any pathological changes consisting of 50 males and 50 females a...

The study of the effects of the living pathogenic organisms upon the animal body has been succeeded by an era in which especial attent-ion has been directed to the influence of their soluble products. The researches of Oertel* upon human diphtheria, of Babes t and of Welch and Flexner$ upon the experimental form of the disease, the latter including the effects of the soluble products of the gro...

The macroscopic and microscopic features of the urothelial response of the human urinary bladder to urethral catherisation are described. The catheter reaction is characterised by a predominantly eosinophilic inflammatory response producing, macroscopically, a papillary mucosal appearance termed polypoid cystitis. The severity of the epithelial inflammatory response correlates significantly wit...

The paper describes the reconstruction of rat hind limb lymphedema model according to method V. Triacca et al. (2019), presents in detail morphological changes skin and subcutaneous tissue animals at different stages development chronic lymphatic edema. Histological tissues dermis hypodermis up 3 months are characteristic acute edema, from 4th 6th month histological picture is compensation stag...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES WNIN/Ob (obese and euglycaemic) and WNIN/GR-Ob (obesity with impaired glucose tolerance), were isolated and established from Wistar rat stock (WNIN). Both strains showed physical, physiological and biochemical indices related to obesity. We present here haematology, histology and pathophysiological changes between the phenotypes of these strains, lean (+/+), carrier (+/-...

Multiple endoscopic specimens were obtained from 58 patients with a columnar lined gesophagus to study the histological and histochemical features of this metaplastic epithelium. Five patients (8.6%) had presented with a primary oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Three different epithelial types, junctional, atrophic fundic and intestinal were identified. Twenty two (38%) patients had just one type of...

AIMS To investigate the histopathological features of the synovial lining of the knee following implantation of an artificial cruciate ligament. METHODS Eighty two patients underwent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction for chronic, symptomatic instability of the knee. The cruciate ligament was reconstructed with a scaffold type prosthetic ligament. All patients underwent arthroscopy at ...