POSTER SESSION III Tuesday, February 14, 2006   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Exhibit Level CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY 1 Virtual Microscopy in Resident Cardiovascular Pathology Training and Competency Assessment: Comparison to Conventional Light Microscopy (210) AM Cushman-Vokoun, JD Gentry, BW Keenportz, SK Kohl, KR Mathews, CL Nerby, HR Peck, RK Stevens, GA Talmon, SJ Radio - University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 2 Cardiomyocyte Basement Membrane Integrity Is Affected After Left Ventricular Unloading In End Stage Heart Failure: The Role Of MMP-2 (203) AH Bruggink, MFM van Oosterhout, N de Jonge, JPM Cleutjens, DF van Wichen, J van Kuik, FHJ Gmelig-Meyling, R de Weger - University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands; UM, Maastricht, Netherlands 3 Histological And Immunohistochemical Evaluation Of Amyloid In Endomyocardial Biopsies (213) MT Idrees, P Gorevic, L Miller, JT Fallon - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 4 Increased acute cellular rejection after dexamethasone substitution for methylprednisone in heart transplant recipients (212) AN Husain, SE Fedson, AB Cochrane, AY Kim, AS Anderson - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 5 The Effects of Statins on Human Coronary Atherosclerosis (217) SD Reilly, SH Litovsky, JB Caulfield - University Hospital, Birmingham, AL 6 A Postmortem Investigation Of Distal Coronary Microembolization In Acute Coronary Syndromes (201) C Basso, F Bacchion, A Ramondo, L Cacciavillani, G Tarantini, A Abudureheman, R Razzolini, S Iliceto, G Thiene - University of Padua Medical School, Padova, Italy 7 Plaque Morphology and Healing of Coronary Thrombi in Sudden Death (215) E Ladich, K Skorija, S Rittersma, A Burke, R Kutys, Y Liang, M Joner, F Kolodgie, R Virmani - CVPath, International Registry of Pathology, Gaithersburg, MD; Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 8 The Angiotensin Converting Enzyme DD Polymorphism is Increased in Frequency in Sudden Coronary Death Due to Stable Plaque and is Associated With Increased Plaque Burden (208) W Creighton, AP Burke, B Kutys, R Virmani - University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; International Registry of Pathology, Gaithersburg, MD 9 Expression Of Soluble Elastin Fragments In Normal Human Aorta And Atherosclerotic Lesions (199) T Akima, K Nakanishi, K Suzuki, M Katayama, S Hiroi, Susumu Tominaga, T Nishioka, M Kusuhara, RJ Siegel, F Ohsuzu, T Kawai - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama Medical Center of Saitama Medical College, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan; Eisai Co, Ltd, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 10 Effect Of Age On Aortic Intima Thickness And Intimal Soluble Elastin Fragments (sELAF) In Children And Young Adults In A Japanese Population (198) T Akima, K Nakanishi, H Kishimoto, Susumu Tominaga, S Hiroi, A Suzuki, RJ Siegel, F Ohsuzu, T Kawai, K Suzuki, M Katayama - National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama Children's Medical Center, Saitama, Japan; Cedars-Sinal Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 11 Clinicopathologic findings in 111 consecutively excised ascending aortic aneurysms (207) MJ Collins, V Dev, PWM Fedak, JW Butany - Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 12 Failure to Detect HSV, CMV and EBV Viral Genomes in Giant Cell Arteritis Biopsies (206) M Cankovic, RJ Zarbo - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 13 Native Valvular Pathology And Pannus Overgrowth In Explanted Prosthetic Heart Valves (209) KS Cunningham, M Borger, S Leong, J Butany - University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 14 Primary Bioptic Malignant Cardiac and Pericardial Tumors. A 35 Years Single Institution Survey (202) C Basso, M Valente, G Gerosa, G Thiene - University of Padua Medical School, Padova, Italy 15 Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma: A Follow-Up Study of 22 Cases (204) AP Burke, JC Fanburg-Smith, JF Fetsch, M Miettinen - University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD; Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC