Practical Cardiovascular Pathology

Professor Mary N. Sheppard, MD, FRCPath, FRCPI, Director of Cardiovascular Pathology Unit, St. George’s Medical School, University of London, UK

• Preface, Useful Abbreviations, Autopsy cardiac examination, The coronary arteries: Atherosclerosis and ischaemic heart disease, Valve disease, Infective endocarditis, Cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure and cardiomyopathy. Myocarditis, Cardiac tumours, Diseases of the aorta, Deaths following cardiac surgery and invasive interventions, Investigation of sudden cardiac death, Arteropathies, microcirculation, and vasculitis, The pericardium, Index.