Unusual myocardial (myostromal) "repair" in cardiac transplant patient.
A 57-year-old man received a cardiac allograft for severe ischemic heart disease. His endomyocardial biopsy at eight weeks postoperatively showed a focus of unusual myocardial morphology characterized by small diameter myocytes associated with loose, myxoid appearing stroma and a myocytic mitotic figure. We feel this may represent a unique type of myocardial repair.
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Department of Pathology, The University of Mississippi Hospitals and Clinics, Jackson 39216, USA. ballen@pathology.umsmed.edu
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D001706:Biopsy; D004699:Endocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000473:pathology*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D017154:Stromal Cells / Q000473:pathology