Cardiac Pathology: A Guide to Current Practice

Description:

This updated second edition provides a comprehensive overview of cardiac pathology.

Clear illustrations of the common styles of dissection are provided along with the normal anatomy and histology.

The chapters cover autopsy heart examination, ischemic heart disease, myocarditis, sudden death, valvular disease, transplant pathology, cardiomyopathy, cardiac neoplasia and congenital heart disease with a clear analysis of diagnostic criteria (macroscopic, microscopic and genetic) for both common cardiac diseases and those of less common types.

The text is accompanied by high quality macroscopic and microscopic images and references to other specialty data sources.

Cardiac Pathology: A Guide to Current Practice is aimed at established pathologists and trainees, as well as any clinician with an interest in cardiac disease.

It will be of value to those working in cardiac surgery, cardiology and those in the autopsy/forensic fields.

Table of contents:

Front Matter

The Normal Adult Heart and Methods of Investigation

Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardiac Imaging

Current Therapeutics for Cardiac Disease

The Heart at Autopsy, Including Radiological Autopsy of the Heart

Embryology of the Heart

Ischaemic Heart Disease

Myocarditis

Valvular Heart Disease

Transplant Pathology

Cardiomyopathies

Cardiac Tumours

Congenital Heart Disease

Sudden Cardiac Death