Elsevier

American Heart Journal

Volume 60, Issue 3, September 1960, Pages 364-370
American Heart Journal

Clinical communication
Needle biopsy of the human ventricular myocardium: Review of 54 consecutive cases

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Abstract

Needle biopsy of certain human organs has become an increasingly important procedure. Specimens of tissue so obtained give opportunity for an accurate morphologic study that is offered by no other means. In the diagnosis of lesions of the myocardium, such methods as electrocardiography, various radiologic procedures, heart catheterization, and bacteriologic or viral studies offer only indirect information from which certain presumptive conclusions can be drawn.

Metabolic, inflammatory, fibrotic, and invasive processes of the myocardium can be studied by multiple needle biopsies of the heart.

This report presents the findings for the first 54 consecutive patients in whom multiple myocardial biopsies (totaling 150) have been obtained.

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This work was supported by the Eustice Fund.

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