English Name
Margaret Evelyn Billingham
Original Name
Margaret Evelyn MacPherson
Date, Country, and City of Birth
September 20, 1930; Tanga, United Republic of Tanzania (East Africa).
Date and City of Death
July 14, 2009; Grass Valley, CA, USA
History of Life
Margaret Billingham was born on September 20, 1030, in Tanga, Tanzania, East Africa, to Colin and Violet MacPherson while her father was in the British diplomatic services. She received her primary education at the Loreto School in Kenya. Dr. Billingham received her MBBS degree in 1954 and completed her postgraduate training all at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England. She emigrated with her husband, John Billingham, and their two sons to the United States in 1963 where she completed 1 year of a postgraduate fellowship in cardiopulmonary medicine at Stanford University before embarking on residency training in anatomic pathology under the tutelage of Richard Kempson and Ronald Dorfman. Following completion of her fellowship...
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Adomian, G. E. T., Laks, M., & Billingham, M. E. (1978). The incidence and significance of contraction bands in endomyocardial biopsies from normal human hearts. American Heart Journal, 95, 348.
Billingham, M. E. (1979). Some recent advances in cardiac pathology (invited paper for human pathology). Human Pathology, 10, 367–386.
Billingham, M. E. (1981). Diagnosis of cardiac rejection by endomyocardial biopsy. The Journal of Heart Transplantation, 1, 25–30.
Billingham, M. E. (1985). The diagnostic criteria of myocarditis by endomyocardial biopsy. Heart and Vessels Supplement, 1, 133–137.
Billingham, M. E., Mason, J., Bristow, M., & Daniels, J. (1978). Anthracycline cardiomyopathy monitored by morphological changes. Cancer Treatment Reports, 62, 865–872.
Billingham, M. E., Cary, N. R. B., Hammond, M. E., Kemnita, J., Marboe, C., McAllister, H. A., Snovar, D. C., Winters, G. L., & Zerbe, A. (1990). A working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of heart and lung rejection: Heart rejection study group. The Journal of Heart Transplantation, 9, 587–592.
Burke, C. M., Theodore, J., Dawkins, K., Yousem, S., Blank, N., Billingham, M. E., et al. (1984). Post-transplant obliterative bronchiolitis and other late lung sequelae in human heart-lung transplantation. Chest, 86, 824–829.
Caves, P. K., Stinson, E. B., Billingham, M. E., & Shumway, N. E. (1973a). Percutaneous transvenous endomyocardial biopsy in human heart recipients (experience with a new technique). Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 16, 325–336.
Caves, P. K., Stinson, E., Graham, A. F., Billingham, M. E., Grehl, T., & Shumway, N. E. (1973b). Percutaneous transvenous endomyocardial biopsy. JAMA, 225, 289.
Caves, P. K., Stinson, E. B., Billingham, M. E., Rider, A. K., & Shumway, N. E. (1973c). Diagnosis of human cardiac allograft rejection by serial cardiac biopsy. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 66, 461.
Caves, P. K., Billingham, M. E., Stinson, E. B., & Shumway, N. E. (1974). Serial transvenous biopsy of the transplanted human heart: Improved management of acute rejection episodes. Lancet, 1, 821–826.
Caves, P. K., Coltart, D. J., Billingham, M. E., Rider, A. K., & Stinson, E. B. (1975). Transvenous endomyocardial biopsy: An application of a method for diagnosing heart disease. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 51, 286–290.
Schroeder, J. S., Billingham, M. E., & Rider, A. K. (1975). Cardiac amyloidosis: Diagnosis by transvenous endomyocardial biopsy. The American Journal of Medicine, 59, 269–273.
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Berry, G.J., Tazelaar, H.D. (2016). Billingham, Margaret Evelyn (1930–2009). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4079-1
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