Tag Archives: British Heart Valve Society

A pathologist’s eye view of valve disease started the day with a presentation from Professor Kim Survana (Consultant Pathologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust). Covering the range from normality, to degenerative, calcific, rheumatic, congenital and infective pathology, slides of macroscopic and microscopic specimens brought to life what cardiologists see and hear in their daily practice, or as Professor John Chambers (Consultant Cardiologist, St Thomas’s Hospital, London) coined: “the reality of shadows”. Reviewing culture negative endocarditis, Dr John Klein (Consultant Microbiologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundati