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Figure 8 | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Figure 8

From: Transplant of stunned donor hearts rescued by pharmacological stress echocardiography: a “proof of concept” report

Figure 8

Recipient of donor #5 in Table 1 . Ischemic peritransplant injury in the first 4 endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs) taken for post-transplant rejection status surveillance. A (12th day after surgery): generic interstitial oedema; B (19th day after surgery): a focus of peritransplant injury with hypereosinophilic cytoplasm myocites (asterisk) or with coagulative myocytolisis (arrow); C (26th day after surgery): necrotic, evanescent (disappearing) and fragmented myocytes (asterisk); D (36th day after surgery): a focus of resolving peritransplant injury with regional loss of myocytes, loose substitutive connective tissue/granulation tissue and pigment-laden macrophages.

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