RATIONALE Hemochromatosis is a disorder, associated with an abnormal accumulation of iron leading to toxic organ damage. Clinical symptoms develop during a long period of time, thus, determining accidental or late diagnosis, usually when complications are evident. PATIENT CONCERNS A 53-year-old man was brought to the emergency unit with symptoms of hypovolemic shock without any apparent cause...

  Background and Objective: Ischemic heart disease (IHD) following atherosclerosis is the most common cause of cardiac deaths world wide. We aimed to investigate the pathologic features of atherosclerosis in non cardiac death cases to have an estimate of atherosclerosis prevalence in Mashad (North east of Iran). Patients and Methods : This descriptive (cross sectional) study was done, during ...

Angus Turnbull1* and Michael Osborn2 1Imperial College School of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, London, UK 2Department of Cellular Pathology, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK *Corresponding author: Angus Turnbull, Imperial College School of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK, Tel: 4473565091...

Gross lesions of atheroselerosis in many arterial sites were graded in 500 consecutive autopsies in a general hospital. The grading system used took into account both the total area of intimal involvement and the severity of individual lesions. The first report analyzes the distribution and severity of atherosclerosis in the 347 men and women of the study group who died without morphologic evid...

Background and Objective: BCG vaccination is used in many countries with a high prevalence of TB to prevent childhood tuberculosis meningitis and miliary disease. Local and systemic sideeffects are associated with BCG vaccine. The most critical reaction is disseminated BCG infection which occurs in mostl...

BACKGROUND Autopsies continue to have a multifactorial role in the delivery of modern undergraduate medical education, despite the radical educational reforms and decline in autopsy rates over the last decade. This study was conducted to highlight the usefulness or otherwise of autopsy as a part of MBBS curriculum from students' point of view, especially in the backdrop of the controversy among...

Practice-based learning and improvement is one of the six core competencies listed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for residency programs (post-graduate medical training). ACGME defines practice-based learning and improvement as “an ability to investigate and evaluate the care of patients, appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and continuously improve ...

BACKGROUND Globally, clinical certification of the cause of neonatal death is not commonly available in developing countries. Under such circumstances it is imperative to use available WHO verbal autopsy tool to ascertain causes of death for strategic health planning in countries where resources are limited and the burden of neonatal death is high. The study explores the diagnostic accuracy of ...

OBJECTIVE To study trends in termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly over 10 years and to assess the contribution of autopsy to the final diagnosis and counselling after termination. DESIGN Retrospective study with cases from a congenital anomaly register and a defined unselected population. DATA SOURCES Pregnancies resulting in termination for fetal anomaly identified from the Oxford co...

The Autopsy Committee of The College of American Pathologists has prepared this guideline in conjunction with representatives of other organizations to assist pathologists in autopsy procedures for brain, spinal cord, and neuromuscular system. The guideline is to be regarded as being primarily an educational tool. Application of these recommendations on autopsy reporting is to be made on the ba...