I/2.1: Main data of the presented specimen case, I/2.2: Description of the specimen






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I/2.1: Main data of the presented specimen case

Patient’s name:

56 years

Patient’s sex:

male

Baseline pathological disease:

Severe arteriosclerosis of all coronary arteries, especially in the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery

Pathological complication:

Old myocardial infarction of the left ventricle’s lateral wall

Pathological complication:

Chronic aneurysm of the left ventricle’s lateral wall with thrombosis

Pathological complication:

Moderate ventricular dilatation

Pathological complication:

Cerebral thromboembolism

Pathological cause of death:

Acute cerebral infarction

Histopathological diagnosis:

Old myocardial infarction with thrombosis

I/2.2: Description of the specimen

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A heart weighing g with the visceral pericardium showing scarred thickening at some places on the surface; otherwise it is smooth, shiny and reflective, and the fat layer is hypertrophic underneath. The heart chambers are mildly dilated, left ventricle wall thickness is cm, and right ventricle wall thickness is cm. The cardiac valves are membranous, intact and can be elevated in all positions. There is a baglike protrusion on the upper third of the lateral wall of the left ventricle  and this prtotrusion even alters the heart’s outer surface’s shape here, and forms a cavity with a cm inner diameter. In the cavity, there is a round, mottled, subacute thrombus of cm, with uneven surface which sticks to the wall and has a stratified structure on the cut surface.

The cavity’s wall is tapered, it is only 0.1 mm at places, and it is scarred, leathery and hard. The coronary arteries’ pathway is straight and regular, their lumen is significantly narrowed by calcified plaques, especially in the left circumflex branch where the narrowing measures several centimeters.

Utolsó módosítás: 2014. March 7., Friday, 08:10