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Autopsy pathologists should update cardiac dissection protocols to deliver the increasingly detailed information required by clinicians, geneticists, and families.
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Highlights the need for autopsy pathologists to update cardiac dissection protocols to meet modern clinical, genetic, and medicolegal requirements.
Adult autopsy cardiac pathology has been previously a quiet backwater of ischaemic heart disease and the occasional cardiomyopathy. This has changed to an increasingly tense area, following recent genetic discoveries and some medicolegal cases. All autopsy pathologists should consider their dissection protocols and check that they are able to deliver the increasingly detailed information that clinicians, geneticists and families require. This text has suggestions about the practical realities of cardiac dissection, cardiac histology and the need for other tests alongside illustrations aimed to assist case consideration.
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S. Kim Suvarna (2008) conducted an editorial in Adult autopsy cardiac pathology. Autopsy pathologists should update cardiac dissection protocols to deliver the increasingly detailed information required by clinicians, geneticists, and families.
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