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Normal Heart

View of superior surface of transverse section of heart as seen from above, with anterior surfac facing downward.
Note relative thicknesses of the left and right ventricles and the homogeneous red myocardium.
The amount of epicardial fat is excessive.
(Description By:J. Hasson, M.D. )
(Image Contrib. by: UCHC )
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Etiology
N.A.
Pathogenesis
N.A.,
Epidemiology
N.A.
General Gross Description
Appears homogeneously bright red.
General Microscopic Description

Myocardial fibers are striated and are made up of individual cellular units containing one or two centrally placed large ovoid nuclei.
Elongate units are either unbranched and separated at each end from adjoining units by intercalated discs, or may branch, with intercalated discs demarcating the branch ends from adjoining branched or unbranched cellular units. This is not a true syncytium.
Yellow lipofuscin granules accumulate with increasing age near the two poles of the nucleus.
Clinical Correlation

N.A.
References

Burkitt G etal. Wheater's basic histopathology, 3rd ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1996, pp. 107-111.
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Synopsis by: J. Hasson, MD (T32000M00100)[547]
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