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The Importance of the Autopsy in Medicine: Perspectives of Pathology Colleagues.
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- Evaluating systematic targeted universal testing for tuberculosis in primary care clinics of South Africa: A cluster-randomized trial (The TUTT Trial).PLoS medicine · 2023Trial
- Contacting next-of-kin for research consent following medico-legal autopsy: a practice-based study from Denmark.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Evaluation of a virulence gene repertoire as a means to investigate the role in the causal pathway to death of Escherichia coli isolated from postmortem specimens, northern Tanzania.American journal of clinical pathology · 2026Article
- Major discrepancy between clinical and autopsy diagnosis: a descriptive single-center analysis and its implications for the South African public health system.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Accelerating Proficiency in Minimally Invasive Autopsy for Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Research: A Strategic Framework.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2026Observational
- Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease: Comparison with Pathologic Specimens-A Case Series.CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
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- Clinical autopsy: methodological applications and scientific perspectives in post-mortem diagnostics.Pathologica · 2025Article
- Trends and differences in the rates of autopsy in the United States, 2003 to 2020: A nationwide analysis.Heart rhythm O2 · 2025Article
- Myeloid sarcoma of the heart-A clinicopathological correlation.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2025Article
- Inpatient autopsy rate and associated factors in a Chinese megacity: a population-based retrospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Assessment of Awareness and Acceptability of Hospital Autopsy Among People Living with HIV and Their Caregivers in Northern Uganda.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Morbidity and Mortality Conferences in Internal Medicine Specialty Training in Japan: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Study.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Article
- Videoautopsy-A Minimally Invasive Autopsy Method Using Endoscopic Techniques in Forensic Medicine: Clinical Features.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The need for integrated research autopsies in the era of precision oral medicine.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2023Review
- Post-mortem findings in Spanish patients with COVID-19; a special focus on superinfections.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Postmortem changes in brain cell structure: a review.Free neuropathology · 2023Article
- Causes of death in patients with autoimmune and rheumatic diseases-a 16-year autopsy-based study.Autopsy & case reports · 2023Review
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- Prevalence of Imaging-Detected Silent Female Breast Cancer in Autopsy Specimens: A Study Using Image-Guided Biopsies.Cureus · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This article presents a perspective on the importance of the autopsy in medical practice and science based on experiences of the authors as physician-scientists involved in autopsy practice. Our perspectives are presented on the seminal contributions of the autopsy in the areas of cardiovascular disease, including congenital heart disease, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, and myocardial infarction, and infectious disease, including tuberculosis and viral infections. On the positive side of the future of the autopsy, we discuss the tremendous opportunities for important research to be done by application of advanced molecular biological techniques to formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks obtained at autopsy. We also note with concern the countervailing forces impacting the influence of pathology in education and clinical practice at our academic medical centers, which also present impediments to increasing autopsy rates. Our challenge as academic pathologists, whose careers have been molded by involvement in the autopsy, is to counter these trends. The challenges are great but the benefits for medicine and society are enormous.
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