Figure 8.

Recipient of donor #5 in Table 1. Ischemic peritransplant injury in the first 4 endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs) taken for post-transplant rejection status surveillance. A (12^th day after surgery): generic interstitial oedema; B (19^th day after surgery): a focus of peritransplant injury with hypereosinophilic cytoplasm myocites (asterisk) or with coagulative myocytolisis (arrow); C (26^th day after surgery): necrotic, evanescent (disappearing) and fragmented myocytes (asterisk); D (36^th day after surgery): a focus of resolving peritransplant injury with regional loss of myocytes, loose substitutive connective tissue/granulation tissue and pigment-laden macrophages.