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===Gross===
===Gross===
Features<ref>PBoD P.591.</ref>
Features:<ref>PBoD P.591.</ref>
*No commissural fusion.
*No commissural fusion.
**Commissural fusion typical of rheumatic heart disease.
**Commissural fusion typical of rheumatic heart disease.
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Interpretation of Movat stain:<ref name=penn_med/>
Interpretation of Movat stain:<ref name=penn_med/>
*black = nuclei and elastic fibers.
*Black = nuclei and elastic fibers.
*yellow = collagen and reticular fibers.
*Yellow = collagen and reticular fibers.
*blue = mucin, ground substance.
*Blue = mucin, ground substance.
*red (intense) = fibrin.
*Red (intense) = fibrin.
*red = muscle.
*Red = muscle.
 
Image:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myxomatous_aortic_valve.jpg Myxomatous valve (WC)].


==Rheumatic heart disease==
==Rheumatic heart disease==
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