Cardiovascular Pathology, Set 1

For each of the following patients, select the most likely pathologic finding:

1. Though endomyocardial biopsy reveals no significant degree of rejection, a 50-year-old orthotopic heart transplant recipient has worsening congestive heart failure 6 years following transplantation:

2. A 58-year-old man died with intractable arrhythmias under general anesthesia during elective surgery for a right inguinal hernia repair. At autopsy, there are pink amorphous deposits of material present in the interstitium and around vessels. These deposits stain with Congo red:

3. Lymphocytic infiltrates extend diffusely through the myocardium on microscopic examination of the heart from autopsy of a 24-year-old woman who died suddenly and unexpectedly:

4. The left ventricular outflow tract is partially occluded by an asymmetrically bulging interventricular septum in a 30-year-old man who died suddenly and unexpectedly during a game of raquetball:

5. A portion of the left ventriclar free wall demonstrates contraction band necrosis histologically in the heart at autopsy of a 61-year-old man who died soon after the onset of chest pain while shovelling snow out of his driveway:

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