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. 2019 Oct 15;19:848. doi: 10.1186/s12879-019-4500-7
Grade Morphology
0 Normal myocardial ultrastructural morphology
0.5 Not completely normal but no evidence of anthracycline-specific damage
1 Isolated myocytes affected and/or early myofibrillar loss; damage to < 5% of all cells
1.5 Changes similar to those in grade 1 except damage involves 6–15% of all cells
2 Clusters of myocytes affected by microfibrillar loss and/or vacuolization, with damage 16–25% of all cells
2.5 Many myocytes (26–35% of all cells) affected by vacuolization and/or myofibrillar loss
3 Severe, diffuse myocyte damage (>35% of all cells)