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cardiomyocytic anomalies
Tuesday 10 January 2017
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hydroxychloroquine cardiotoxicity shows vacuolated myocytes on H&E; EM demonstrates myelinoid & curvilinear bodies
Definition: Lipofuscin pigment granules represent undigested material derived from intracellular lipid peroxidation.
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Lipofuscin is the "wear-and-tear" pigment of the heart. Morphologically found at the myocytes’ nuclear "poles"
cardiomyocytic lipofuscin deposits
Examples
vacuolated cardiomyocytes
cardiomyocytic lipofuscin deposits
See also
cardiomyocytes