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This was a 57-year-old male whose hospital course following abdominal surgery was characterized by progressive deterioration and hypotension. Four days post-operatively, the patient sustained an anterior myocardial infarction and died the next day.
== Images ==
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File:IPLab1MyocardialInfarction1.jpg|In this gross photograph of the heart from this case, note the area of fresh myocardial infarction (arrows) in the anterior portion of the left ventricle and extending into the anterior portion of the interventricular septum. Note that the walls of the left and right ventricle are slightly thicker than normal.
File:IPLab1MyocardialInfarction2.jpg|This is a low-power photomicrograph of the left ventricular free wall extending from the epicardium (1) to the endocardium (2). The area of infarction is the darker red (hypereosinophilic area) along the subendocardium (3).
File:IPLab1MyocardialInfarction7.jpg|This high-power photomicrograph contains normal myocytes (1), vacuolated myocytes (2), and infarcted myocytes (3).
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== Virtual Microscopy ==
=== Myocardial Infarction ===
<peir-vm>IPLab1MyocardialInfarction</peir-vm>
=== Normal Heart ===
<peir-vm>IPLab2Hypertrophy_normal_Heart</peir-vm>
== Study Questions ==
=== Images ===
* [http://peir.path.uab.edu{{SERVER}}/library/index.php?/tags/43-myocardial_infarct PEIR Digital Library: Myocardial Infarct Images]
* [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/CVHTML/CVIDX.html WebPath: Cardiovascular Pathology Images]