Cardiac Pathology

Cardiovascular pathology is a subspecialty of pathology deals with the study of diseases that affect the heart and vessels. It mainly focuses on the characterization of congenital heart malformations, diseases of the cardiac muscle (cardiomyopathy), the cardiac valves (mitral, aortic, tricuspid and pulmonic), conduction system (sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes, His bundle and Purkinje system), pericardium and the vascular system including arteries and veins.