Saffitz Jeffrey E
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Cardiovasc Pathol. 2017 May-Jun;28:51-58. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2017.02.005. Epub 2017 Feb 27.
The article is based on work presented in the Distinguished Achievement Award lecture at the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology meeting in Seattle, WA, in March 2016. It reviews our current understanding of mechanisms responsible for a highly arrhythmogenic, nonischemic cardiomyopathy. It highlights the armamentarium of powerful methods available to the experimental pathologist in efforts to define how complex cardiovascular diseases work. It concludes with acknowledgment of the need for a far more detailed approach as to how we categorize human disease, a task for which pathologists are especially well positioned.
本文基于2016年3月在华盛顿州西雅图市举行的心血管病理学会会议上杰出成就奖讲座中所展示的工作。它回顾了我们目前对导致高度致心律失常性、非缺血性心肌病机制的理解。它强调了实验病理学家可用的一系列强大方法,以努力确定复杂心血管疾病的发病机制。文章最后承认,对于我们如何对人类疾病进行分类,需要一种更为详细的方法,而病理学家在这项任务中具有独特的优势。