Atherosclerosis
Fatty streaks and atherosclerotic plaques
- a fatty streak in an arterial endothelial lining, and
- an atherosclerotic plaque
can be found in the University of Western Ontario 'Virtual Slide Box'.
Coronary artery atherosclerosis and thrombosis - case discussion with a virtual slide at the University of Leeds virtual pathology site.
Atherosclerotic aortic aneurysm and its consequences - a case discussion with a virtual slide at the University of Leeds virtual pathology site.
Myocardial infarction
Normal histology - left and right ventricles (virtual slide at the online Histology Guide).
Acute myocardial infarction with a virtual slide available at the University of Western Ontario 'Virtual Slide Box'.
Acute myocardial infarction virtual slide at the National Library of Medicine (USA) (see link below).
Established acute infarction (of some days' duration) - case discussion with a virtual slide available at the University of Leeds virtual pathology site.
Healing myocardial infarction (probably of weeks' duration), and well-healed myocardial infarction (probably of some months' duration) with a virtual slide available at the University of Western Ontario 'Virtual Slide Box'.
Hypertensive heart disease
Hypertensive heart disease - with perivascular fibrosis - virtual slide available at the Indiana University School of Medicine 'Virtual Microscopy' site.
Pericarditis
Fibrinous pericarditis (in a setting of uraemia) virtual microscope slide available at the University of Western Ontario 'Virtual Slide Box'.
Endocarditis
Acute bacterial endocarditis virtual microscope slide available at the University of Western Ontario 'virtual slide box'.
Endocarditis virtual slide available via the Indiana University School of Medicine.
See a virtual slide of a normal cardiac valve (aortic valve) at the Histology Guide virtual slide box.
Atrial thrombosis
Mural thromus virtual microscopy slide available at Indiana University School of Medicine (pathology of the heart section).
Mural thrombus microscopic images available at Pathology Education Instructional Resource - PEIR.
Cardiac conduction system
Sino-atrial (SA) node (via e-heart.org)
Atrio-ventricular (AV) node (via e-heart.org) and a virtual slide.
Additional resources
- Histology Guide - virtual histology slidebox
- Indiana University Human Structure virtual slidebox
- Introduction to histology (OpenLearn from the Open University)
- University of Michigan Medical School - Histology and microscopy learning resources
- University of Wisconsin histology resources
- Duke University Medical School - medical histology and virtual microscopy rersources
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - cell and tissue biology virtual slides
- University of Leeds - virtual pathology
- Loyola University Chicago - virtual cardiovascular slides