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| Acute Myocardial Infarct |
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| Acute Myocardial Infarct
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•View of superior surfaces of transverse sections of the
heart, with the anterior surfaces facing to the left.
•These sections were bathed in a tetrazolium reagent
solution. This is a gross marker of succinic dehydrogenase,
which stains bright red, and is lost within
1/2 hour of the clinical onset of myocardial necrosis. Dead
myocardium remains unstained as seen in these sections.
It takes at least 12 hours of survival for an acute infarct
to be seen grossly and microscopically, a limitation in
diagnosis eliminated by this technique.
| | (Description By:J. Hasson, M.D. )
| | (Image Contrib. by: UCHC )
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