A 56yr old male patient with sudden substernal pain,impending doom and died 4days after.on autopsy there was a large transmural anterior wall infarction.it would be associated with:: (A) Presence of collagen and fibroblasts, (B) Presence of neutrophils, (C) Granulomatous inflammation, (D) Granulation tissue
Answer is B. Granulation tisse appears vetween 8-10 days and collagen appears after 2months .between 3-7days ,neutrophils sta disintegrating with early phagocytosis caused by macrophages ,presence of macrophages would have been a better answer but in the given question presence of neutrophils is best option .(ref Robbins 9/e p544)