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https://www.texasheart.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/thi-Musculus-cardiacus-under-microscopy.jpg1600900A cardiovascular pathologist is an expert in the science that deals with the structure and form of tissues and organs of the body and in the natural history of disease. They play an important role in your care because they test specimens to find out why disease starts, what makes it worse, and how it can be treated.