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Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valves

November 15, 2018

Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valves.  Department member Dr. Michael Seidman was the pathology lead in a new study which investigated correlates of leaflet thickening and structural valve degeneration (SVD) using a multimodal ex vivo analysis of explanted transcatheter heart valves.

Brain Canada award will support Alzheimer’s study

November 8, 2018

St. Paul’s Hospital clinical chemist and HLI Early Career Investigator Dr. Mari DeMarco and her research team won a $684,000 grant through the Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life Team Grant competition, funded through the Canada Brain Research Fund with the financial support of Health Canada and institutional sponsors. Dr. DeMarco and her group were one of six teams across Canada funded in the competition. They will use their grant to investigate the impact of Alzheimer's disease diagnostics in Canada.

IgA-dominant glomerulonephritis with a membranoproliferative pattern of injury

October 1, 2018

Providence Health Care renal pathologists, Dr. Alex Magil (retired) and Dr. Mei Lin Bissonnette, collaborate in a study of IgA dominant membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.