Cardiovascular Pathology

Article	Citations
Myocarditis is rare in COVID-19 autopsies: cardiovascular findings across 277 postmortem examinations	234
Analysis of cardiopulmonary findings in COVID-19 fatalities: High incidence of pulmonary artery thrombi and acute suppurative bronchopneumonia	104
MicroRNAs: roles in cardiovascular development and disease	104
COVID-19 myocarditis: quantitative analysis of the inflammatory infiltrate and a proposed mechanism	57
Current state of vaccine development and targeted therapies for COVID-19: impact of basic science discoveries	53
The pathobiology of perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), the fourth layer of the blood vessel wall	22
Sudden cardiac death in the young: A consensus statement on recommended practices for cardiac examination by pathologists from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology	19
The role of adiponectin in cardiovascular disease	18
Cardiac pathology in COVID-19: a single center autopsy experience	18
Fatal Takotsubo syndrome in critical COVID-19 related pneumonia	16
PD-1 and PD-L1 expression in cardiac transplantation	15
An overview of human pericardial space and pericardial fluid	15
Accessory mitral valve tissue: anatomical and clinical perspectives	14
Prevention of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF): reexamining microRNA-21 inhibition in the era of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics	13
The history, science, and art of wine and the case for health benefits: perspectives of an oenophilic cardiovascular pathologist	13
A novel coronavirus meets the cardiovascular system: Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Symposium 2021	13
Structural abnormalities in the non-dilated ascending aortic wall of bicuspid aortic valve patients	13
Cardiovascular factors predicting poor outcome in COVID-19 patients	13
Cardiac tumors: three decades of experience from a tertiary center: are we changing diagnostic work-up with new imaging tools?	12
The pathology of Kawasaki disease aortitis: a study of 37 cases	12
Myocardial fibrosis: morphologic patterns and role of imaging in diagnosis and prognostication	11
Accelerated miniature swine models of advanced atherosclerosis: A review based on morphology	11
Diagnosis, treatment and predictors of prognosis of myocarditis. A narrative review	10
Sudden death by massive systemic embolism from cardiac myxoma. Role of the clinical autopsy and review of literature	10
Sengers syndrome: a rare case of cardiomyopathy combined with congenital cataracts in an infant: post-mortem case report	10

Cardiac macrophage density in Covid-19 infection: relationship to myocyte necrosis and acute lung injury	10
Histological features of endomyocardial biopsies in patients undergoing hemodialysis: Comparison with dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertensive heart disease	9
Comparison of the damage to aorta wall in aortitis versus noninflammatory degenerative aortic diseases	9
Primary cardiac synovial sarcoma: a clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetics study of five clinical cases	9
Electrocardiographic changes are strongly correlated with the extent of cardiac inflammation in mice with Coxsackievirus B3-induced viral myocarditis	9
Correlation between SHP-1 and carotid plaque vulnerability in humans	8
Commentary on the enigma of small vessel disease in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: is invasive assessment of microvascular resistance a novel independent predictor of prognosis?	8
Perfusion-distention fixation of heart specimens: a key step in immortalizing heart specimens for wax infiltration and generating 3D imaging data sets for reconstruction and printed 3D models	8
Microthrombosis as a cause of fulminant myocarditis-like presentation with COVID-19 proven by endomyocardial biopsy	8
Remodeling of abdominal aortic aneurysm sac following endovascular aortic repair: association with clinical, surgical, and genetic factors	8
Inflow cannula obstruction of the HeartWare left ventricular assist device: what do we really know?	7
Immunosuppressive therapy of biopsy proved immune-mediated lymphocytic myocarditis in the virus-negative and virus-positive patients.	7
The role of endocarditis in sudden cardiac death: highlighting the value of the autopsy, pathological features and cardiac complications	7
CARD9 mediates T cell inflammatory response in Coxsackievirus B3-induced acute myocarditis	7
Cellular senescence evaluated by P16INK4a immunohistochemistry is a prevalent phenomenon in advanced calcific aortic valve disease	7
Improving effects of eplerenone on atrial remodeling induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia in rats	6
Clinically occult amyloidosis derived from leukocyte chemotactic factor 2 (ALECT 2) with cardiac involvement complicating renal transplantation: case report and literature review	6
Endomyocardial biopsy with co-localization of a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma and AL amyloidosis	6
Autonomic nerves in myocardial sleeves around caval veins: Potential role in cardiovascular mortality?	6
Fibrin-associate diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma arising in a left atrial myxoma: A case report and literature review✰,✰✰	6
Fatal rupture of pseudoaneurysm following angioplasty	6
A case of surgically resected cardiac rhabdomyoma with progressive left ventricular outflow tract obstruction	6
The effect of olmesartan on aortic intimal thickening after balloon injury through Apelin/APJ	6
Combined valve replacement and aortocoronary bypass in an adult mucopolysaccharidosis type VII patient	5
Structural valve deterioration and mode of failure of stentless bioprosthetic valves	5
Atrial inflammation and microvascular thrombogenicity are increased in deceased COVID-19 patients	5
Inflammation and fibrosis characterize different stages of myocardial remodeling in patients after stereotactic body radiotherapy of ventricular myocardium for recurrent ventricular tachycardia	5
Review on multifaceted involvement of perivascular adipose tissue in vascular pathology	5
Histopathologic features of alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins with atypical clinical presentation	5
Cardiac fibroma: A clinicopathologic study of a series of 12 cases	5
Unexpected case of chagas disease reactivation in endomyocardial biopsy for evaluation of cardiac allograft rejection	5
The pathology of early failure in Mitroflow pericardial valve bioprosthesis (12A/LX)	5
Is carotid web an arterial wall dysplasia? A histological series	5
Kinins and nitric oxide in patients with chronic chagas disease and systemic arterial hypertension	5
Effect of sex, age and body measurements on heart weight, atrial, ventricular, valvular and sub-epicardial fat measurements of the normal heart	5
Implication of inflammation on Coxsackie virus and Adenovirus receptor expression on cardiomyocytes and the role of platelets in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy	4
Age-related histologic features of the sinoatrial node from normal human hearts during the first 10 decades of life: a study of 200 cases	4
The microenvironment of the atheroma expresses phenotypes of plaque instability	4
Consensus statement on the processing, interpretation and reporting of temporal artery biopsy for arteritis	4
Efficacy of bilateral temporal artery biopsies and sectioning of the entire block of tissue for the diagnosis of temporal arteritis	4
Multiorgan emboli due to an intraluminal thrombus from frozen elephant trunk	4
Infective endocarditis caused by Chaetomium globosum	4
Gravitational ischemia in the brain—may contribute to delirium and mortality in the intensive care unit	4
Adipocytes and membranous fat necrosis within native cardiac valves: Clinicopathologic characterization of histologic constituents	4
Pathologist's role in identifying cardiac defects—a fetal autopsy series	4
Rac1 mediates cadherin-11 induced cellular pathogenic processes in aortic valve calcification	4
Commentary on the spectrum of cardiopulmonary pathology in COVID-19	4
Recurrent pulmonary embolization of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: a case report	3
Quantitative assessment of myocardial fibrosis by digital image analysis: An adjunctive tool for pathologist “ground truth”	3
Myocarditis and endomyocardial biopsy: achieving consensus diagnosis on 100 cases	3

Senescence, immune microenvironment, and vascularization in cardiac myxomas	3
Morphology of the papillary muscles and the chordae tendineae of the ventricles of adult human hearts	3
Coexistence of amyloidosis and light chain deposition disease in the heart	3
Etiologies of pericarditis in hospital and forensic autopsies	3
The role of the bicuspid aortic valve in sudden cardiac death–findings at cardiac autopsy	3
The role of endomyocardial biopsy in suspected myocarditis in the contemporary era: a 10-year National Transplant Centre experience	3
Molecular genetic characterization of sudden deaths due to thoracic aortic dissection or rupture	3
Hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes: systematic review	3
Isolated subclavian or brachiocephalic arteries with tetralogy of Fallot, left retro-aortic brachiocephalic vein	3
The comeback of syphilitic aortitis	3
Extracellular vesicles and atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease	3
Diagnosing myocarditis in endomyocardial biopsies: survey of current practice	3
Stone heart syndrome after prolonged cardioplegia induced cardiac arrest in open-heart surgery – a pilot study on pigs	3
An autopsy case of sudden unexpected death with Barlow's disease	2
Atypical presentation of Takayasu aortitis and myocarditis contributing to sudden death in a young Canadian first nations adult	2
Novel pathologic manifestation of idiopathic massive myocardial calcification	2
Congenital right ventricular diverticulum formed by pulmonary regurgitative jet flow in a fetus with tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve	2
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with a complex clinical course leading to heart transplantation	2
Histological studies shed new light on the initiation and characteristics of calcification of coronary artery aneurysms in Kawasaki disease	2
The prognostic value of cardiac troponin for 60 day mortality and major adverse events in COVID-19 patients	2
Autopsy findings of left atrial appendage closure device	2
Unfavorable left ventricular remodeling due to experience of chronic sleep restriction after myocardial infarction: The role of matrix metalloproteinases & oxidative stress	2
Bicuspid aortic valve: The most frequent and not so benign congenital heart disease	2
Histopathologic evaluation of saphenous vein grafts in patients with type II diabetes mellitus undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting	2
Commentary on development of the “molecular microscope (MMDX)” assay for heart transplant biopsy rejection surveillance: SCVP journal club	2
Myocarditis in the forensic setting	2
Histopathological findings in the hearts of COVID-19 autopsies: a letter to Cardiovascular pathology journal editor in response to Halushka et al. 2020	2
Carney Complex syndrome	2
Comparison of modes of failure and clinical outcomes between explanted porcine and bovine pericardial bioprosthetic valves	2
A case presenting as fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage due to segmental arterial mediolysis associated with Crohn's disease	2
S100B in heart diseases	2
Recurrent cardiac tamponade following coronavirus disease 2019 mRNA vaccination: A case report	2
Correlation of light microscopic findings with transmission electron microscopy within a vascular occlusion device	2
The influence of glutaraldehyde on the microscopic structure of human pericardium	2
Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy caused by metastatic ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma: a case report and literature review	2
Myocarditis in the forensic setting – a review of the literature	2
Huge right ventricular outflow tract aneurysm late following total repair of tetralogy of Fallot leading to orthotopic heart transplantation	2
A cardiac intimal sarcoma mimicking infective endocarditis	2
Light chain deposition disease presenting as an atrial mass: a case report and review of literature	2
Isolated cardiac valve involvement in smoldering adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma	2
A challenging case of eosinophilic myocarditis leading to heart failure and transplantation	2
An untapped resource: characteristics of thrombus recovered from intermediate or high risk pulmonary embolus patients	2
Diffusible contrast-enhanced micro-CT improves visualization of stented vessels	2
Primary cardiac lipoblastoma of the right atrium	1
Valve-in-valve prosthesis—late morphological findings	1
Sudden unexpected intrapartum death and left ventricular noncompaction involving the right ventricle	1
Cellular and molecular mechanisms driving cardiac tissue fibrosis: On the precipice of personalized and precision medicine	1
Primary cardiac low-grade neuroendocrine tumor: a case report and review of the literature	1
Are telocytes related to maintenance of vascular homeostasis in normal and pathological aorta?	1
3D models of the cardiac conduction system in healthy neonatal human hearts	1
Ultra-rapid regrowth of urothelial cardiac metastasis after debulking surgery	1
Sanfilippo syndrome type A: early cardiac involvement of two patients with cardiac manifestations	1
Neovascularization of native cardiac valves, and correlation with histopathologic, clinical, and radiologic features	1
A fetal rat model of ventricular noncompaction caused by intrauterine hyperglycemia	1
The spectrum of macrophage-predominant inflammatory myocardial disease presenting as fulminant heart failure	1
Unexpected diagnosis of metastatic breast carcinoma in an endomyocardial biopsy done for cardiac allograft rejection evaluation	1
Re: Nair et al. Consensus statement on the processing, interpretation and reporting of temporal artery biopsy for arteritis	1
Commentary on why implementing and standardizing histologic diagnosis of myocarditis is crucial for the clinical setting and patient care	1
Incidence of quadricuspid pulmonary valves at postmortem examination	1
Can transforming growth factor beta and downstream signalers distinguish bicuspid aortic valve patients susceptible for future aortic complications?	1
Amyloid deposition in an explanted bioprosthetic aortic valve: case report and review of the literature	1
Electron microscopy identification of SARS-COV-2: what is the evidence?	1
Spectrum of postmortem autopsy findings in native and surgically corrected hearts with congenital malformations: a 10-year single-center experience	1
Dilated cardiomyopathy due to a novel combination of TTN and BAG3 genetic variants: From acute heart failure to subclinical phenotypes	1
An unexpected intracardiac location of yolk sac tumor	1
A case of endomyocardial biopsy-proven early stage cardiac involvement in heterozygous Fabry disease	1
Frequent protein kinase A regulatory subunit A1 mutations but no GNAS mutations as potential driver in sporadic cardiac myxomas	1
“Role of Cardiac Inflammation in the Pathology of COVID-19; relationship to the current definition of myocarditis”	1
Endomyocardial biopsy facilitates diagnosis of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA): a case report	1
Intracardiac echocardiography-guided endomyocardial biopsy for the early detection of giant cell myocarditis causing recurrent ventricular tachycardia	1
Right atrial papillary fibroelastoma arising from the Chiari network detected by echocardiography: a case report and literature review.	1
The heart is the sun of the microcosm: William Harvey revolution	1
Commentary on an inflammatory discussion: Society for Cardiovascular Pathology journal club	1
The natural history of CVB3 myocarditis in C57BL/6J mice: an extended in-depth characterization	1
The role of Transmembrane Protein 16A (TMEM16A) in pulmonary hypertension	1
Multisystem Erdheim-Chester disease presenting with pericardial effusion confirmed by the effusion cytology specimen	1
Postmortem diagnosis of Takotsubo syndrome on autoptic findings: is it reliable? A systematic review	1
An unexpected paradox: wall shear stress in the aorta is less in patients with severe atherosclerosis regardless of obesity	1
Electron microscopic identification of SARS-CoV-2	1
Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries	1

Exploring the role of pericardial miRNAs and exosomes in modulating cardiac fibrosis	1
The application of autopsy and explanted heart samples in scientific research	1
Origin of the Right Coronary Artery From the left Sinus of Valsalva in a Donor Heart With Unsuccessful Repair	1
Histopathological evaluation of chronic rheumatic mitral valve stenosis: the association with clinical presentation, pathogenesis, and management at a National Cardiac Institute, Tanzania.	1
A case report of Nocardia asiatica constrictive pericarditis in a patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus	1
Transthyretin-derived amyloid (ATTR) and sarcoidosis: Does ATTR deposition cause a granulomatous inflammatory response in older adults with sarcoidosis?	1
Early transverse tubule involvement in cardiomyocytes in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis: a possible cause of cardiac events	1
Emerging pulmonary histopathological findings in COVID-19 patients— a letter to the editor in response to Grosse et al. 2020	1
The potential involvement of glycocalyx disruption in abdominal aortic aneurysm pathogenesis	1
Diffuse mononuclear inflammatory response to COVID-19: friendly fire or smoldering enemy?	1
Increased fibrosis and microvessel disease in allograft endomyocardial biopsies of children with chronic graft failure due to cardiac allograft vasculopathy	1
Cardiac myxoma with atypical cell population mimicking malignancy – a diagnostic pitfall	1