Valvular Heart Disease — Flashcards

Tigered effect in myocardium is due to _____ change

_____, secondary to rheumatic fever, is associated with Aschoff bodies, which are granulomas with giant cells and fibrinoid material

The heart is maximally softened _____ to 10 days post-MI

Lepidic cells are characteristically seen in _____

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)

_____ bacterial endocarditis is most commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus

Hint: Acute or Subacute