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A simple postmortem technique permits the estimation of infarcted myocardium quantity, expressed as a percentage of the whole heart or left ventricle, or in grams of muscle.
Describes a simple postmortem technique to quantify the extent of myocardial infarction for clinicopathologic correlation studies.
Facilitates precise clinicopathologic infarct correlations; extends quantitative postmortem methods for cardiovascular research.
A simple technic that is useful in clinicopathologic correlation studies is described. It permits postmortem estimation of the amount of myocardium involved in an infarct. Results can be expressed in terms of percentage of the whole heart or percentage of the left ventricle infarcted, or in Gm. of muscle infarcted.
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Hackel et al. (1974) studied this question. A simple postmortem technique permits the estimation of infarcted myocardium quantity, expressed as a percentage of the whole heart or left ventricle, or in grams of muscle.
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