Progressive Autoimmune Disease

Chronic Rheumatic

Heart Disease

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Designed for an educated lay audience,

this editorial illustration visualizes the pathological processes in the mitral valve resulting from chronic rheumatic heart disease.

STORY

The goal for this project was to create a conceptual illustration demonstrating etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical consequences of a disease. A major challenge was finding a two-page layout that could effectively depict those concepts in a way that is easy to understand, anatomically accurate, and visually engaging.

On the first page, the anterior part of the left ventricle including right ventricular outflow tract is removed to effectively show the mitral valve. Etiology and pathogenesis are explained in three steps, using color-coded labels and vector elements for clear communication. On the second page, the mitral valve is visualized at a bigger scale with call outs to ensure effective connection between pathogenesis and clinical consequences.

DESCRIPTION

Year

Dec.2018

Course

Visual representation of

processes in human pathology

Content

Expert

John Wong

Gwan Hyun Yoon

Client

Shelley Wall

Audience

Educated lay audience

Format

Print, Magazine

two-page spread

Medium

ipad Procreate

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

PROCESS WORK

Research

Sequential Report

MSC2004H_Son_Felix DH_MRPproposal_201807

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Tissue

Landscape

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Tissue

Cube

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Selzer, A., & Cohn, K. E. (1972). Natural history of mitral stenosis: a review. Circulation, 45(4), 878-890.

Roberts, S., Kosanke, S., Dunn, S. T., Jankelow, D., Duran, C. M., & Cunningham, M. W. (2001). Pathogenic mechanisms in rheumatic carditis: focus on valvular endothelium. The Journal of infectious diseases, 183(3), 507-511.

Gao, H., Qi, N., Feng, L., Ma, X., Danton, M., Berry, C., & Luo, X. (2017). Modelling mitral valvular dynamics–current trend and future directions. International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering, 33(10), e2858.

Bisno, A. L. (1991). Group A streptococcal infections and acute rheumatic fever. New England journal of medicine, 325(11), 783-793.

Drake, R., Vogl, A. W., & Mitchell, A. W. (2009). Gray's Anatomy for Students E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences.

Schünke, M., Schulte, E., Schumacher, U., Ross, L. M., Lamperti, E. D., & Voll, M. (2010). Neck and Internal Organs (THIEME Atlas of Anatomy).

Netter, F. H. (2008). Netter-Atlas de anatomia humana. Elsevier Brasil.

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