Porcine Myopathy

**Semantic type:** Disease or Syndrome

**Definition:** A spontaneous muscular disease in minipigs, characterized by changes in skeletal myofibers, including both acute (dominated by necrosis, hemorrhage, edema, and mixed inflammatory cell infiltrates) and more chronic lesions (characterized by basophilic regenerating myofibers, mineralization, and occasionally fibrosis). (INHAND)

**Synonyms:** - Myopathy, Porcine - PORCINE MYOPATHY