Gross Heart Pathology

Click on the title to view an example and description. To view all examples as a slide show, click on the first example and follow the links. * are slides for Sophmore Path class at Tulane.

  1. Acute fibrinous pericarditis *
  2. Close up of Acute fibrinous pericarditis *
  3. Chronic constrictive pericarditis
  4. Ventricular hypertrophy *
  5. Hypertrophied and dilated left ventricle *
  6. Idiopathic cardiomyopathy
  7. Long-standing rheumatic heart disease *
  8. Rheumatic fever and congestive heart failure *
  9. Rheumatic mitral valve *
  10. Atrial thrombi *
  11. SBE in a 53 year old female *
  12. Brain from SBE patient
  13. Streptococci Viridans infection
  14. Spleen in SBE
  15. Salmonella infection
  16. Two week myocardial infarct *
  17. Close up of papillary muscle from acute infarct *
  18. Recent infarct *
  19. Coagulation necrosis of the myocardial fibers *
  20. Heart of a 54 year old male who died suddenly *
  21. Massive infarct of 1 wk. duration *
  22. Thrombus in right coronary artery *
  23. Old and recent infarcts in the same heart *
  24. Cardiac aneurism filled with mural thrombus *
  25. Large, post-infarction ventricular aneurism *
  26. Fatty degeneration of myocardium
  27. Fatty degeneration in chronic anemia
  28. Microscopic degeneration of myocardium
  29. Myxoma *
  30. Amyloidosis of the heart
  31. Pompe's disease
  32. Endocardial fibroelastosis
  33. Ventricular septal defect *
  34. Large Ventricular septal defect *
  35. Urinary system from VS defect *
  36. Atrial septal defect *
  37. Mild tetralogy of Fallot *
  38. Transposition of the great vessels *
  39. Coarctation of the aorta *