Autopsy for Medical Diagnostics: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1096
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anatomic pathology; cardiovascular pathology; autopsy for medical diagnostics; pathology of sudden unexpected death
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Interests: cardiovascular pathology; post-mortem investigation; autopsy; perinatal pathology; sudden unexpected death; sudden cardiac death; sudden infant death syndrome; cardiac conduction system; general pathology; surgical pathology; pulmonary pathology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Diagnostics addresses the scope of the practice of autopsy for medical diagnostics.
An autopsy is a post-mortem examination of the deceased body and organs to determine the cause of death and study the pathological changes. Autopsy is an anatomopathological professional activity that requires a high level of technical ability and knowledge for its performance and interpretation.
The importance of post-mortem investigations for the documentation of the cause of death will be discussed in this Special Issue, including the expanding roles of molecular autopsy. The indications and dissection techniques of autopsy will also be reviewed in this Special Issue, along with interpretations of post-mortem findings described in relation to clinical diagnostics and discussions about clinicopathological correlations. The role of the pathologist, especially the cardiovascular pathologist, will be discussed in terms of the evaluation of the cause of death. The objectives of autopsy will be considered, including assessments of the validity and appropriateness of diagnostic, medical, and surgical procedures. The provision of information to the patient’s relatives, to colleague physicians, to society at large, and to the medical literature, as discovered during the evaluation of subjects that died suddenly and unexpectedly, will also be addressed.
Basic information on virtual autopsies based on diagnostic imaging studies will be provided. The increasing need for quality assurance in relation to autopsies, medical education, and training will also be presented. The teaching of autopsy procedures is “vital” in preserving and increasing medical knowledge in order to diminish undiagnosed medical illnesses, as stated in an old Latin aphorism: “Hic mors gaudet surrurrere vitae,” literally: “Here death is pleased to help life”.
Dr. Giulia Ottaviani
Dr. Simone G. Ramos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autopsy
- post-mortem investigation
- cardiovascular pathology
- sudden cardiac death
- sudden unexpected death
- perinatal autopsy
- molecular autopsy
- virtual autopsy
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