Autopsy of myocardial infarction
Author:
Mikael Häggström [note 1]
Autopsy
Comprehensiveness
Factors supporting a relatively more comprehensive autopsy and/or report, particularly in the inclusion of negated findings:
- Lack of explanation from existing evidence. On the other hand, for example, upon finding an obvious aortic rupture, the rest of the autopsy is less relevant and may be relatively short.
- Double-reading: If your report is likely to undergo double reading by another pathologist before sign-out, it needs to be more detailed, because the doctor who will do the double-reading then knows that you have looked at those locations.
- Highly suspected locations, such as given from the referral.
On this resource, the following formatting is used for comprehensiveness:
- Minimal depth
- (Moderate depth)
- ((Comprehensive))
Coronary arteries
Make longitudinal (or transverse cuts at 3 mm intervals[1]) through:
- The right coronary artery.
- (The right marginal artery)
- The left coronary and circumflex artery.
- The left anterior descending artery.
- (The left marginal artery)
- (The left diagonal branch)
The presence of a totally occlusive thrombotic mass confers a diagnosis of likely sudden cardiac death death even in the absence of microscopically visible necrosis.[1]
Notes
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michaud, Katarzyna; Basso, Cristina; d’Amati, Giulia; Giordano, Carla; Kholová, Ivana; Preston, Stephen D.; Rizzo, Stefania; Sabatasso, Sara; et al. (2019). "Diagnosis of myocardial infarction at autopsy: AECVP reappraisal in the light of the current clinical classification ". Virchows Archiv. doi:. ISSN 0945-6317.
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