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Spontaneous cardiomyopathy resembling acute rheumatic heart disease in an owl monkey
Author(s) -
Gozalo Alfonso,
Dagle Gerald E.,
Montoya Enrique,
Weller Richard E.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of medical primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1600-0684
pISSN - 0047-2565
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0684.1992.tb00610.x
Subject(s) - fibrinoid necrosis , pathology , medicine , cardiomyopathy , necrosis , inflammation , heart failure , disease , vasculitis
A wild‐caught male Aotus vociferous died spontaneously during quarantine. Histologic examination of the heart showed several small myocardial arteries replaced with fibrinoid necrosis and adjacent inflammation that included lymphocytes and large histiocytic cells. Less often, similar inflammatory foci were observed in the myocardium interstitium. The lesions observed in the heart of the owl monkey resembled Aschoff bodies.