POSTER SESSION IV Tuesday, March 1, 2005   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Convention Center Exhibit Hall B CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY 27 Distinctive Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Profiles in Patients Forming Nodular Endocardial Infiltrates (Quilty Lesions) Following Cardiac Transplantation (253) KE Chu, PG Lal, J Wohlgemuth, G Berry, M Billingham, CC Marboe - Columbia University, New York, NY; Expression Diagnostics, South San Francisco, CA; Stanford University, Stanford, CA 28 Molecular Diagnosis of Acute Myocarditis Causing Sudden Death in Young People (252) C Basso, E Carturan, F Calabrese, G Thien - University of Padua Medical School, Padova, Italy 29 Juvenile Sudden Cardiac Death: An Autoptic Analysis (254) G d'Amati, CRT di Gioia, C Autore, MD Romeo, A Lopez, C Ciallella, P Gallo - La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy 30 Is Segmental Mediolytic Arteriopathy (SMA) an Elastase Induced Arterial Disease? Report of 6 Patients and Review of 26 Published Cases (257) AG Rose, LJ Martin, PV Kaye, S Tawfic, BM Segal - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; University of Cape Town, Cape Town, W.Cape, South Africa 31 Sustained Progression and Loss of Gender-Related Difference of the Atherosclerosis in the Very Old: A Pathological Study of 1,074 Consecutive Autopsy Cases (259) M Sawabe, T Arai, A Hamamatsu, K Chida, N Tanaka - Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan