Anaphylaxis at autopsy

Health hazards at autopsy

The postmortem room is a source of potential hazards to the health of forensic experts, pathologists and mortuary technicians. Infectious pathogens in cadavers tha mycobacterium tuberculosis, HBV, HCV, HIV and prions that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt syndrome (GSS). This review focuses specif infected patients.

Massive hepatobiliary ascariasis at autopsy.

To cite: Swain R, Behera C, Mridha AR, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015209839 DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old man suddenly lost consciousness at home and was immediately brought to the emergency department where he was declared dead. The deceased was suffering from schizophrenia and had reported upper abdominal pain for past few months. His si...

Pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis at autopsy Prevalence of pulmonary embolism at autopsy

Intracranial diffuse axonal injury at autopsy.

An illustrative case of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) emphasizes features that help to separate focal outer head trauma owing to blows and/or falls from angular acceleration head injuries associated with diffuse inner brain lesions. In the past, explaining significant neurological deficits and death as the result of diffuse closed head trauma received from high-speed automobile accidents has been...

Incidence of acute aortic dissection at autopsy.

posterior atrial approaches and the adjacent crista terminalis1 (Fig 1). These lesions. attended 1)); patchy atrial intramural and subendocartlial fibroelastosis. conformed to a cardiac involvement in mixed cu)nnective tissue disease. Though the changes in the sinus node do not seem severe. it must be kept in mind that sinus node dysfr~nction was periodic and related to the course of the ~inder...