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Small, bland vegetations, usually attached at the line of closure. One or many may be present
Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis
Large, irregular vegetations on the valve cusps that can extend onto the chordae
Infective Endocarditis
Small or medium-sized vegetations on either or both sides of the valve leaflets
Libman Sacks Endocarditis
Pulsating nail bed with elevation of the nail
Quincke’s Pulse
Systolic pulsation of the uvula
Mueller’s sign
Pistol shot femorals
Traube’s sign
Head nodding with diastole
De Musset Sign
Bounding pulses
Corrigan’s Water Hammer Pulse
Femoral retrograde bruits
Durosier’s sign
Primary chemotherapeutic agent for CML and it’s side effects
Imatinib (Gleevec)
CHF and Fluid retention
Macrophages/histiocytes containing abundant cytoplasm with round nuclei with slender ribbon of chromatin
Anitschow cells
Found in all layers of the heart with foci of swollen eosinophilic collagen surrounded by T-cells, Anitschow cells and Aschoff giant cells.
Aschoff bodies (RF and RHD)
Small, warty vegetations along the lines of closure of the valve leaflets
Rheumatic Heart Disease
Whorls of shed epithelium in mucus plugs
Curshmann spirals
Crystalloids made up of eosinophilic membrane protein
Charcot-Leyden Crystals
Laminated concretions of calcium and proteins
Schaumann Bodies (Sarcoidosis)
Stellate inclusions inside the giant cells
Asteroid bodies (Sarcoidosis)
Basophilic staining of vascular walls due to encrustations by DNA from necrotic tumor cells
Azzopardi effect (Small Cell Lung Carcinoma)
Deposition of negri bodies found in
Cerebellum and Hippocampus
Golden brown, fusiform or beaded rods with translucent center
Asbestos bodies
