POSTER SESSION I Monday, February 28, 2005   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B AUTOPSY AWARD COMPETITION 1 The Final Consultation (2) K Aljerian, M Al Shraim, A Alghamdi, J Butany - University Health Network / University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 2 Causes of Death in Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Solid-Organ Transplant Patients. An Autopsy Study (3) M Alsharif, SEH Cameron, HE Gulbahce, A Rose, C Echeverri, SE Pambuccian - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 3 Adipose Metaplasia (AM) in Healed Myocardial Infarction: A Study of 13 Autopsy Patients with End Stage Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (IC) Treated by Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) and 21 Autopsy Patients with Healed Myocardial Infarcts (4) GG Ausmus, AG Rose, LW Miller - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 4 Androgen Receptor Expression in Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer from a Rapid Autopsy Series: Quantitative Subcellular Localization Using AQUA (5) G Azabdaftari, R Shah, TA Bismar, R Kim, MP Zerkowski, D Rimm, KJ Pienta, MA Rubin - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Boston; Harvard Medical School, Boston; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 5 Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients. An Autopsy Study of 16 Cases (7) SEH Cameron, M Alsharif, HE Gulbahce, A Cioc, H Mesa, A Rose, SE Pambuccian - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 6 Histologic and Molecular Correlates of Neonatal Mortality Due to In Utero Infection (9) LD Cooper, GJ Nuovo - Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 7 Torsion of the Umbilical Cord: An Explanation for the Unexplained (14) RJ Flavin, A O'Malley, B O'Neill, C Collins, A Ruey, J Gillan - Rotunda Hospital/Trinity College Medical School, Dublin, Ireland 8 DNA Sequencing of 16S rDNA for Identification of Microbial Pathogens from Autopsy Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded Tissue in Neonates with Necrotizing Enterocolitis (15) CD Galderisi, R Bruggeman, RJ Zaino, PC Appelbaum, B Bozdogan - Penn State/MS Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 9 Autopsy Findings, Manner and Cause of Death in Nursing Home Deaths Investigated by the Allegheny County Coroner's Office (ACCO), Pennsylvania: A Five Year Retrospective Review (19) DN Ionescu, GJ Naus, AM Shakir, BI Omalu - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Coroner's Office of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA 10 Acutely Angled Left Main Coronary Artery, Mitral Valve Prolapse and Sudden Cardiac Death (20) D Knoedler, LM Biedrzycki, RW Cihak, JF - Southern Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Waukesha County Medical Examiner's Office, Waukesha, WI; Pathologists' Regional Laboratory, Lewiston, ID 11 Autopsy Findings in Lung Allograft Recipients Stratified by Time Elapsed Post-Transplantation: An Update (24) MR Peterson, SC Emery, HK Ahn, ES Yi, E Masliah - University of California, San Diego, CA 12 Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT)-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TMA). A Retrospective Autopsy Study (27) K Siami, K Kojouri, K Swisher, J George, ZG Laszik - University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 13 Differential Expression of INOS, VEGF and COX-2 in the Lungs Is Related to Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease: An Autopsy Study of 23 Cases (29) X Sun, A Duarte, AK Haque - University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX