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.
Target Audience
Practicing academic and community pathologists, and pathologists-in-training
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners will be able to:
– Enhance confidence in diagnosing and reporting clinically significant placental pathologies
– Enhance confidence in diagnosing and reporting gestational trophoblastic neoplasia
– Understand the critical diagnoses that necessitate immediate reporting
ProgramÂ
Items Included in the Purchase of this Course
– Lecture: Introduction to the Placenta: Grossing and Macroscopic Correlation – Chrystalle Katte Carreon, MD
– Lecture: Maternal Vascular Malperfusion and Fetal Vascular Malperfusion – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
– Tutorial 1: Lecture Case Review – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
– Lecture: Inflammatory and Infectious Pathologies – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD and Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
– Lecture: Pathologies that Recur – Athena Chen, MD
– Tutorial 2: Lecture Case Review – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
– Lecture: Litigious Aspects of Placental Pathology – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
– Lecture: Case Examples – Theonia K. Boyd, MD and Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
– Tutorial 3: Lecture Case Review – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
– Lecture: Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
– Tutorial 4: Lecture Case Review – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
– Lecture: Pathology of Spontaneous or Missed Abortions in the First and Early Second Trimester – Athena Chen, MD
– Lecture: An Approach to Anomalies, Syndromes, and Sequences – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
– Lecture: Fetal Cardiac Pathology – Chrystalle Katte Carreon, MD
– First Trimester and Early Second Trimester Pathology – Athena Chen, MD
– Microscopic Correlate of Significant Gross Findings – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
– Lecture: Hydrops Fetalis – Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
– Cardiac Pathology – Chrystalle Katte Carreon, MD
– Renal and Pulmonary Pathology – Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
– Lecture: Late Stillbirths – Theonia K. Boyd, MD
– Hypoxic and Infectious Pathology – Sanjita Ravishankar, MD
– Skeletal, Hematopoietic, and Miscellaneous Pathology – Drucilla Jane Roberts, MD
– Free –Â Panel Discussion with Faculty
Original release date:Â May 3, 2023
