Table of Contents

Preface vii S E C T I O N 1 Techniques and approach to cardiovascular pathology 1. Examination of the heart ... 3 2. Congenital heart disease ... 12 3. Handling of surgical specimens ... 33 4. Iatrogenic cardiovascular pathology ... 39 5. and molecular autopsy ... 58 Sudden cardiac death, conduction system study S E C T I O N 2 Ischemic heart disease and diseases of coronary arteries 6. Pathology of coronary atherosclerosis ... 73 7. Myocardial infarction ... 86 8. Chronic ischemic heart disease ... 96 9. Coronary stents ... 104 10. Coronary artery bypass grafts ... 109 11. disease ... 118 Nonatherosclerotic coronary artery S E C T I O N 3 Cardiomyopathies and endocardial diseases 12. Pathology of cardiomyopathy: an overview ... 143 13. Dilated cardiomyopathy ... 148 14. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ... 158 15. (arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy) ... 169 Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy 16. Ventricular noncompaction ... 178 17. cardiac amyloidosis ... 184 Restrictive cardiomyopathy and 18. Cardiac disease in systemic disorders ... 195 19. atria, and interatrial septum ... 216 Conditions involving the right ventricle, 20. Endocardial disease ... 227 S E C T I O N 4 Myocarditis and pericarditis 21. Myocarditis: Classification and etiology ... 237 22. Lymphocytic and autoimmune myocarditis ... 241 23. Hypersensitivity and toxic myocarditis ... 249 24. Giant cell myocarditis and cardiac sarcoidosis . 255 25. Infections of the myocardium ... 264 26. Pericardial disease ... 270 S E C T I O N 5 Transplant pathology 27. Cellular rejection ... 283 28. Antibody-mediated cardiac allograft rejection . . 289 29. Cardiac allograft vasculopathy ... 293 S E C T I O N 6 Disease of heart valves 30. Congenital conditions of the aortic valve ... 299 31. Acquired aortic valve disease ... 309 32. valve disease ... 319 Mitral valve prolapse and congenital mitral 33. Acquired mitral valve disease ... 327 34. Pulmonary and tricuspid valves ... 338 35. Endocarditis ... 349 36. Prosthetic heart valves ... 364 S E C T I O N 7 Heart tumors 37. Pediatric heart tumors ... 375 38. Cardiac myxoma ... 383 39. tumor-like lesions in the adult ... 390 Miscellaneous benign cardiac tumors and 40. Sarcomas of the heart and great vessels ... 398 41. to the heart ... 409 Cardiac lymphoma and metastatic tumors Burke Tavora_FM.indd ix 8/13/2010 8:20:36 PM x CONTENTS 50. Arterial aneurysms, excluding aorta ... 506 51. vessels ... 520 Miscellaneous disorders of peripheral S E C T I O N 1 0 Thrombotic disorders 52. hypertension ... 533 Pulmonary embolism and pulmonary 53. Thrombosis of noncoronary vessels ... 545 Index 557 S E C T I O N 8 Vasculitis 42. Aortitis ... 419 43. biopsy ... 431 Giant cell arteritis and temporal artery 44. Polyarteritis nodosa ... 439 45. angiitis ... 447 Wegener granulomatosis and Churg-Strauss 46. Small vessel vasculitis ... 458 47. Localized and miscellaneous vasculitis ... 466 S E C T I O N 9 Non-inflammatory diseases of blood vessels 48. noncoronary arteries ... 477 Pathology of atherosclerosis involving 49. aneurysms ... 490 Noninflammatory thoracic aortic