Cardiac beriberi: morphological findings in two fatal cases

Cardiac beriberi: morphological findings in two fatal cases

Cardiovascular beriberi is categorized into two main groups, according to its cause: alcoholic and non-alcoholic (dietary). Cardiovascular beriberi can also be divided into a fulminant form (Shoshin beriberi) and a chronic form. Shoshin beriberi is characterized by hypotension, tachycardia, and lactic acidosis and is mainly encountered in non-alcoholic patients in Asian countries, although it h...

Two Fatal Cases of Cardiac Malaria

Cardiac beriberi: two modes of presentation.

Two patients suffering from cardiovascular beriberi presented with different clinical manifestations. One had the classical features of a high cardiac output with raised jugular venous pressure and gross oedema. The other was in fulminating heart failure with clinical evidence of a low cardiac output but no peripheral oedema. The latter type of beriberi (shoshin) is rare. Cardiovascular beriber...

Histological Findings in Fatal Cases of Bacillary Dysentery

Thus, in the first two groups, the death~rate was less than t per cent. (b)' Age.~The age of the fatal cases varied' from 22 years to 49 years,. but was not stated in eight. Cc) Bacteriolog:y.~The findings in this respect were: ~ Isolations: B. d:ysenteria:. Shiga, 6. B. dysenteria:, Flexner, 1. B. dysenteria:, mannite-fermenting (non-agglutinating), 1. Bacillary .exudate l (even on 'repeated e...

Two cases of fatal zopiclone overdose.

Two cases of death due to the ingestion of zopiclone are presented. Quantitative determinations of zopiclone yielded 1.4-3.9 mg/L in the blood, 0.81 and 8.7 mg/kg in the liver, and 13.5 and 133 mg in the stomach contents. Drug concentrations were interpreted relative to the case findings, published data, and a limited evaluation of therapeutic concentrations found in two cases of therapeutic zo...