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Figure 6 Low-power view of ventricular septal tissue section from a 20-year-old patient with HCM stained with picrosirius red showing widely distributed interstitial collagen. Volume fraction of interstitial collagen in this patient was 18%. Abnormal intramural coronary arteries with thickened walls are also visible. (Magnification x6.)