POSTER SESSION I Monday, March 24, 2003   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Exhibit Hall A - C AUTOPSY AWARD COMPETITION 1 Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: Is There an Age-Dependency of Various Substrates? (2) C Basso, D Corrado, G Thiene University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy 2 Sudden, Unexpected Death in Cardiac Transplant Recipients: An Autopsy Study (5) C Chantranuwat, JD Blakey, J Kobashigawa, J Mouguchi, H Laks, ME Vassilakis, MC Fishbein University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 3 Fatal West Nile Virus Infection in Renal Transplant Recipient (6) MM Cushing, DJ Brat, MI Mosunjac, A Guasch, RA Hennigar, D Jernigan, L Petersen, C Goldsmith, WJ Shieh, J Guarner, SR Zaki Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 4 Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Pathology Associated with Obesity: An Autopsy Study of 73 Patients (8) S Gadre, S Haque, A Haque University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 5 Elimination of the Preliminary Autopsy Report: A Novel Approach to Improving Autopsy Performance and Reporting (9) CK Lai, S Duong, RM Onerheim St Mary's Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada 6 Expression of Heat Shock Proteins in Normal and Neurodegenerative Diseased Brains (11) JH Lin, MB Feany Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 7 Cavernous Transformation of the Portal Vein in a Patient with 50% Reduction of Protein C, Probable Polycythemia Vera and MTHFR C677T Point Mutation (12) AO Osunkoya, W Aronson, W Kern, S Vogel, T Dunn OUHSC, Oklahoma City, OK 8 Progression Model of Subclinical Prostate Cancer (PCA): Observations of Tumor Volume, Grade and Multicentricity in an Autopsy Series of 1027 Cases (13) V Pansare, C Butler, G Haas, D Grignon, W Sakr Harper University Hospital, Karmanos Cancer Institute & Wayne State University; State University of New York, Upstate Medical University at Syracuse, Syracuse, NY 9 Post-Mortem Validation in Humans of Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Used in Detecting Acute Myocardial Infarction (14) KT Patton, FS Pereles, JW Lomasney Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 10 Heterogeneity in Neuromuscular Pathology in a Series of Fetuses with Pena-Shokier Phenotype (15) TT Pham, K Benirschke, FL Mannino, E Masliah University of California, San Diego, CA 11 Proliferative Activity of Thyroid Follicular Cells in Different Age Groups and Its Correlation with the Risk of Radiation-Induced Thyroid Cancer (18) A Saad, KE Bove, J Stanek, M Medvedovic, YE Nikiforov University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 12 Vascular Visualization in Pathology Specimens - A Simple Technique (20) J Theus, A Shinde, RA Skinner, A Hough, L Joseph University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 13 Assessment of Autofluorescent Alveolar Macrophages and Centriacinar Emphysema as Markers of Smoking Status in Deceased Coal Miners (21) LH Vi, GVS Rao, D Fekedulegn, AF Hubbs, LA Battelli, ML Kashon, V Vallyathan, N Keshava, BS Ducatman West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV