a 47 year-old female died after mitral valve replacement. post-cardiopulmonary bypass right ventricle was not able to pump despite good left ventricular contractility. at microscopic examination, diffuse right ventricular fatty infiltration was found. we found no previous report of this pathology in patients with mitral stenosis

intestinal lipomatosis also known as lipohyperplasia is a rare disease. diffuse infiltration of the fatty tissue mainly in the submucousal layer is characteristic. it is usually asymptomatic and found incidentally. we report a case of lipomatosis in the terminal ileum and ileocecal valve. multidetector computed tomography (mdct) with contrast enhancement showed fatty infiltration of the termina...

Pancreatic cancer is difficult to diagnose in its early stage and is one of the most lethal human cancers. Thus, it is important to clarify its major risk factors, predictive factors and etiology. Here, we focus on fatty infiltration of the pancreas and suggest that it could be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. Fatty infiltration of the pancreas is observed as ectopic adipocytes infiltrating...

Fatty infiltration in muscle is often observed in patients with sizable rotator cuff tear (RCT) and is thought to be an irreversible event that significantly compromises muscle plasticity and contraction strength. These changes in the mechanical properties of the affected muscle render surgical repair of RCT highly formidable. Therefore, it is important to learn more about the pathology of fatt...

OBJECTIVE Obesity is a risk factor of fatty replacement of the pancreas. We aimed to investigate whether there is a better correlation between the visceral fat tissue and the fatty infiltration of the pancreas than with the BMI. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred-eighteen patients were visually divided into three groups according to the pattern of the fatty infiltration of the pancreas. Group ...

INTRODUCTION rotator cuff tears (RCTs) are the most common tendon injury seen in orthopedic patients. Muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration of the muscle are crucial factors that dictate the outcome following rotator cuff surgery. Though less studied in humans, rotator cuff muscle fibrosis has been seen in animal models as well and may influence outcomes as well. The purpose of this study was t...

Fatty infiltration of the liver at postmortem examination has been recommended as a criterion for selection of infants who have died suddenly and unexpectedly for further biochemical investigation for disorders of fatty acid oxidation. We describe a boy with medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency who died four months after diagnosis and in whom only minimal hepatic fatty infiltration wa...