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case_images: Heart: Left ventricular hypertrophy and right ventricular dilatation.
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case_images: F1
case_images: Mitral valve leaflets are fleshy, shrunk and nodular.
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case_images: F2
case_images: The mitral valve leaflets were unevenly thickened, fleshy and shrunk (Fig. 2).
case_images: The lung is severely congested, edematous and dark red in color.
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case_images: F3
case_images: The lungs were severely congested and oozed blood from cut surfaces (Fig. 3).
case_images: The liver showing typical nutmeg appearance of venous congestion.
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case_images: F4
case_images: The liver was enlarged and showed typical nutmeg appearance (Fig. 4).
case_images: A segment of the small intestine showing severe sub-serosal petichial and ecchymotic hemorrhages.
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case_images: F5
case_images: The small intestine contained little food and showed sub-serosal petechial and ecchymotic hemorrhages on a segment measuring about 25 cm (Fig. 5).
case_images: Mitral valve showing fibromyxomatous degeneration formed of loosely arranged stellate fibroblast.(H&E x10).
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case_images: F6
case_images: Mitral valve showing fibromyxomatous degeneration and mucopolysaccharide-rich ground substance (Alcian blue, x10).
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case_images: F7
case_images: The lung showing edema and severe vascular congestion (H&E, x40).
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case_images: F8
case_images: The pulmonary vessels and capillaries were severely congested with accumulation of transudate in air capillaries (Fig. 8).
case_images: The liver shows congestion in a centrilobular vein and close sinusoids, necrosis in the centrilobular hepatocytes (right) and fatty degeneration in the outer hepatic zones (H&E, x20).
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case_images: F9
case_images: The hepatocytes close to the inner zone were necrosed, while those in the middle and portal zones were loaded with fat vacuoles (Fig. 9).
case_images: Renal glomeruli are moderately enlarged and show segmental glomerulosclerosis with partial adhesion and narrowing of urinary space. The nearby arterioles are arteriosclerotic.
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case_images: F10
case_images: The renal arterioles in many instances had onion like thickening of their walls and narrow lumen (Fig. 10).
case_images: Smooth translucent fibrinous thrombi in renal intertubular capillaries (H&E, x40).
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case_images: F11
case_images: Septic mural thrombi were observed in many medium-sized vessels, while homogenous micro-thrombi were noticed in many capillaries (Fig. 11).
case_images: Small intestine showing villous cicatrisation and atrophy. The submucosal arterioles are distorted, partially obliterated and hyalinized (H&E, x10).
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case_images: F12
case_images: The overlying mucosal villi were sclerotic and atrophied (Fig. 12).
case_images: A myocardial arteriole showing wall thickening with hyalinization (H&E, x40).
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case_images: F13