Description
Original release date: May 3, 2023
Course Description
This interactive course serves to introduce pathologists-in-training and in practice to grossly and microscopically evaluate perinatal specimens received intact and fragmented from all gestational ages, with the following emphases:
- Most commonly encountered embryofetal specimen types: how to evaluate and triage them.
- Gross and microscopic emphasis on the most commonly encountered anomalies.
- Diagnostic interpretation of pathologic findings, including definitive observations and recommendations for further clinical evaluation.
- Gross and microscopic pathology of the placenta including both common and rare pathologies.
The course includes both lectures and case-based interactive microscopy sessions.
Items Included in the Purchase of this Course
Cardiac Pathology – Chrystalle Katte Carreon, MD
First Trimester and Early Second Trimester Pathology – Athena Chen, MD
Hypoxic and Infectious Pathology – Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
Lecture: An Approach to Anomalies, Syndromes, and Sequences – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
Lecture: Case Examples – Theonia K. Boyd, MD and Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
Lecture: Fetal Cardiac Pathology – Chrystalle Katte Carreon, MD
Lecture: Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
Lecture: Hydrops Fetalis – Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
Lecture: Inflammatory and Infectious Pathologies – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD and Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
Lecture: Introduction to the Placenta: Grossing and Macroscopic Correlation – Chrystalle Katte Carreon, MD
Lecture: Late Stillbirths – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
Lecture: Litigious Aspects of Placental Pathology – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
Lecture: Maternal Vascular Malperfusion and Fetal Vascular Malperfusion – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
Lecture: Pathologies that Recur – Athena Chen, MD
Lecture: Pathology of Spontaneous or Missed Abortions in the First and Early Second Trimester – Athena Chen, MD
Microscopic Correlate of Significant Gross Findings – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
Renal and Pulmonary Pathology – Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
Skeletal, Hematopoietic, and Miscellaneous Pathology – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
FREE – Panel Discussion with Faculty