ABC | Volume 114, Nº4, Suplement, April 2020

Anatomopathological Correlation Favarato & Benvenuti Heart failure after myocardial infarction an rupture of chordae tendineae Arq Bras Cardiol 2020; 114(4Suppl.1):47-56 Figure 8 - View of the left open atrium and mitral valve. Note the patch adequately closing the large atrial septal defect (asterisk), and surgical suture on the posterior cusp with an extensive retraction area (arrow) that prevents adequate cusp coaptation. Figure 9 - Histological sections of the lungs showing an area of pulmonary infarction (A), with obliteration of the tissue structure, leakage of fibrin and hemorrhage, and an area of septic infarction (B), with extensive purulent inflammatory infiltrate similar to that shown in Figure 7. Hematoxylin-eosin staining. 54