At the completion of this unit the student will be able to....

1. Describe the normal human heart and its functions.

2. List the most common forms of heart disease in the United States.

3. List the most common cyanotic and acyanotic congenital heart diseases and describe their clinical features

4. Discuss the pathogenesis and risk factors of atherosclerosis.

5. Describe the pathology of myocardial infarct and correlate the pathologic findings with clinical symptoms.

6. Discuss the pathogenesis of hypertension. Contrast and compare primary and secondary hypertension.

7. Discuss the pathology of endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis and correlate the pathologic finding with the clinical findings in these diseases.

8. Discuss the pathogenesis of rheumatic fever and describe the typical cardiac lesions of rheumatic cardiopathy.

9. List the most important causes of cardiomyopathy and describe the pathologic findings in this disease.

10. Describe the histologic types of cardiac tumors.

11. Define the listed Keywords

12. Identify key features and be able to recognize from projected slides of each of the diseases and processes depicted in the Supplemental Image Database.