Endocarditis — Flashcards

_____, secondary to rheumatic fever, is associated with Anitschkow cells, which are reactive histiocytes with slender, wavy nuclei

When the surface of the endocardium is damaged, thrombotic vegetations of _____ and fibrin may develop

The ninja-star like nuclei is suggestive of _____ cardiomyopathy.

Aschoff's bodies in rheumatic heart disease shows _____ necrosis.

On biopsy of a heart with myocarditis, a _____ infiltrate with focal necrosis is highly indicative of viral myocarditis

The hyaline, eosinophilic deposits seen on the biopsy point to a diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis, which most commonly leads to _____ cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is characterized by myofibrillar hypertrophy with _____ and fibrosis on biopsy

Aschoff's bodies in rheumatic heart disease shows _____ necrosis.

_____ disease is a glycogen storage disease associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Reperfusion of irreversibly-damaged cells post-MI may result in _____ influx, leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils (contraction band necrosis)