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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