Autopsy Education in Canadian Pathology Programs: A Survey of Canadian Trainees.

Introduction: This survey of Canadian pathology residents was designed to quantify the number of autopsies Canadian residents aim to complete during residency training, to better understand the perception of residents about access and quality of autopsy skills education. In addition, the interest of current pathology residents in autopsy and forensic pathology as a future career was also assessed.

Methods: A web-based survey was sent to all Canadian pathology residents.

Scrupulous Monitoring of Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Mandatory Reporting to Coroners and Medical Examiners of All Physician-Assisted Deaths in Canada.

Although the practice of physician-assisted dying (hereinafter "PAD") will soon be lawful in Canada, opponents of PAD claim that it might result in involuntary deaths. The Supreme Court of Canada in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) rejected such arguments holding that involuntary deaths are preventable provided that jurisdictions devise stringent limits to the practice of PAD and that these stringent limits are "scrupulously monitored and enforced".

The assessment of pathologists/laboratory medicine physicians through a multisource feedback tool.

Context: There is increasing interest in ensuring that physicians demonstrate the full range of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies.

Objective: To determine whether it is possible to develop a feasible and reliable multisource feedback instrument for pathologists and laboratory medicine physicians.

Design: Surveys with 39, 30, and 22 items were developed to assess individual physicians by 8 peers, 8 referring physicians, and 8 coworkers (eg, technologists, secretaries), respectively, using 5-point scales and an unable-to-assess category.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in myocarditis: A JACC White Paper.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has become the primary tool for noninvasive assessment of myocardial inflammation in patients with suspected myocarditis. The International Consensus Group on CMR Diagnosis of Myocarditis was founded in 2006 to achieve consensus among CMR experts and develop recommendations on the current state-of-the-art use of CMR for myocarditis. The recommendations include indications for CMR in patients with suspected myocarditis, CMR protocol standards, terminology for reporting CMR findings, and diagnostic CMR criteria for myocarditis (i.

Skeletal and cardiac muscle defects in a murine model of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.

Previous histological findings, physiological data, and behavioral observations on the A-type lamin knockout mouse (Lmna(-/-)) suggest that important aspects of this model resemble the human Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) phenotype. The main goal of our experiments was to study skeletal and cardiac muscle function in this murine model to obtain the semiquantitative data needed for more detailed comparisons with human EDMD defects. Measurements of the mechanical properties of preparations from two different skeletal muscle groups, the soleus and the diaphragm, were made in vitro.

Influenza A virus infection complicated by fatal myocarditis.

Influenza virus typically causes a febrile respiratory illness, but it can present with a variety of other clinical manifestations. We report a fatal case of myocarditis associated with influenza A infection. A previously healthy 11-year-old girl had malaise and fever for approximately 1 week before a sudden, witnessed fatal collapse at home.

Fatal brodifacoum rodenticide poisoning: autopsy and toxicologic findings.

This report details the pathologic and toxicologic findings in the case of a 15-year-old girl who deliberately and fatally ingested brodifacoum, a commonly used rodenticide. The mechanism of death, massive pulmonary hemorrhage, has not been previously reported. Brodifacoum was quantitated in liver, spleen, lung, brain, bile, vitreous humor, heart blood, and femoral blood using HPLC with fluorescence detection.

Asymptomatic large pituitary adenomas discovered at autopsy.

Background: Pituitary adenomas over 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter might seem to warrant surgical intervention by virtue of their inevitable compression and distortion of surrounding neural tissues.

Methods: We report three pituitary adenomas over 1 inch in diameter, causing gross distortion of the optic nerves, chiasm, and tracts, as well as surrounding brain structures.

Adamantinoma of the tibia: plain-film, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging appearance.

The authors describe the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics of adamantinoma of the tibia in a 29-year-old man. Adamantinoma is a rare, aggressive osteolytic lesion occurring primarily in the diaphyseal portion of long bones. Because of its rarity the MRI features have been infrequently reported.