Gross Heart Pathology 
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a slide show, click on the first example and follow the links. If you wish to
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- Acute fibrinous pericarditis
- Close up of Acute fibrinous pericarditis
- Chronic constrictive pericarditis
- Ventricular hypertrophy
- Hypertrophied and dilated left ventricle
- Idiopathic cardiomyopathy
- Long-standing rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatic fever and congestive heart failure
- Rheumatic mitral valve
- Atrial thrombi
- SBE in a 53 year old female
- Brain from SBE patient
- Streptococci Viridans infection
- Spleen in SBE
- Salmonella infection
- Two week myocardial infarct
- Close up of papillary muscle from acute infarct
- Recent infarct
- Coagulation necrosis of the myocardial fibers
- Heart of a 54 year old male who died suddenly
- Massive infarct of 1 wk. duration
- Thrombus in right coronary artery
- Old and recent infarcts in the same heart
- Cardiac aneurism filled with mural thrombus
- Large, post-infarction ventricular aneurism
- Fatty degeneration of myocardium
- Fatty degeneration in chronic anemia
- Microscopic degeneration of myocardium
- Myxoma
- Amyloidosis of the heart
- Pompe's disease
- Endocardial fibroelastosis
- Ventricular septal defect
- Large Ventricular septal defect
- Urinary system from VS defect
- Atrial septal defect
- Mild tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of the great vessels
- Coarctation of the aorta
Back to CATEGORIES . Return to the Department of Pathology or Tulane University Medical Center .
Two tutorials on cardiovascular pathology are avalable from Tulane, Here (1) and Here (2) .
Histological slides of the heart are avalable from the department of Anatomy .
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James Harrison .
by Robert
McLay
Original material by Horton Johnson
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