USCAP THORAX DECONSTRUCTED Experts Guide to What Can Go Wrong Inside the Chest 2023

Pathologists are generally unfamiliar with a variety of entities in lung, pleural, cardiac and mediastinal pathology, leading to diagnostic errors and creating practice gaps requiring attention. The panorama covered in this interactive microscopy course includes interstitial lung disease, lung infections, pulmonary vasculitis, mesothelial proliferations, mediastinal neoplasia, lung allograft rejection and mimics, heart transplant rejection and distinction from mimics, best practices for optimal triage of lung cancer samples for molecular testing, the cytology of pleural effusions, criteria for aortic vasculitis and other large vessel pathology, recognition of heart valvular pathology, criteria for diagnosis of giant cell arteritis, native heart biopsy interpretation and thoracic soft tissue neoplasms. This faculty ensemble has the professional experience to improve your practice with confidence. You will see cases that make an indelible impression. Breathe easy: this is USCAP, at the heart of education.

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+ Target Audience: pathologists

+ Information:

Original release date: April 12, 2023
Access to this course expires on: February 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time

CME 16.25

Course Description

• Pathologists are generally unfamiliar with a variety of entities in lung, pleural, cardiac and mediastinal pathology, leading to diagnostic errors and creating practice gaps requiring attention. The panorama covered in this interactive microscopy course includes interstitial lung disease, lung infections, pulmonary vasculitis, mesothelial proliferations, mediastinal neoplasia, lung allograft rejection and mimics, heart transplant rejection and distinction from mimics, best practices for optimal triage of lung cancer samples for molecular testing, the cytology of pleural effusions, criteria for aortic vasculitis and other large vessel pathology, recognition of heart valvular pathology, criteria for diagnosis of giant cell arteritis, native heart biopsy interpretation and thoracic soft tissue neoplasms. This faculty ensemble has the professional experience to improve your practice with confidence. You will see cases that make an indelible impression. Breathe easy: this is USCAP, at the heart of education.

Target Audience

• Practicing academic and community pathologists, and pathologists-in-training

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, learners will be able to:

• Establish the criteria for diagnosis of a variety of areas in pulmonary pathology
• Establish criteria for the diagnosis of mesothelioma and benign mesothelial proliferations
• Provide pathologists with the tools to interpret post-transplant heart and lung biopsy specimens
• Establish criteria for the diagnosis of malignant and benign mediastinal lesions
• Help pathologists be able to provide clinically meaningful diagnoses of native heart endomyocardial biopsy specimens

 Topics:

• Infections – Maxwell L. Smith, MD
• CA Lung and Other Tumors – Maxwell L. Smith, MD
• Heart & Vessels – Brandon T. Larsen, MD, PhD
• Soft Tissue Tumors – Brandon T. Larsen, MD, PhD
• Lecture: CT-Pathology Correlations – Henry D. Tazelaar, MD
• Pleura – Andrew Churg, MD
• ILD-1 – Andrew Churg, MD
• Lecture: Drug Reactions – Andrew Churg, MD
• Mediastinum – Anja C. Roden, MD
• H/L Transplant – Anja C. Roden, MD and Henry D. Tazelaar, MD
• ILD-2 and Problems – Andrew Churg, MD and Anja C. Roden, MD
• Biopsy Problems – Henry D. Tazelaar, MD