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Figure 5. Myocardial infarction (autopsy specimen) in a patient who was operated on using the single crossclamp technique in the presence of a heavily atherosclerotic ascending aorta. For this situation the term "trash heart" has been created. Myocardial infarction occurred despite the use of single aortic crossclamping. Note the loss of nuclei and cross striation of myocytes (Arrow).

 


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