Case of Sudden Death, Connected with Pregnancy: Phlebitis and Duodenitis

Sudden death: ectopic pregnancy mortality.

OBJECTIVE To describe the trends in ectopic pregnancy mortality in Michigan from 1985 through 1999 and compare to those of previous time periods. METHODS We reviewed all cases of maternal mortality from ectopic pregnancy in Michigan from 1985 through 1999. We extracted data from death certificates, hospital inpatient and emergency department records, medical examiner autopsy reports, and revi...

Sudden death due to aortic dissection in pregnancy: case report

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Pregnancy is a well-known risk factor for aortic dissection and half of the cases reported in women under 40 years of age have been estimated to occur during pregnancy, usually during the third trimester. The authors present a case of unexpected maternal death due to acute aorti...

Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Case with Chest Pain and Family History of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Case Report

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiovascular disease, which is caused by a multitude of mutations in genes encoding proteins of the cardiac sarcomere (1). Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHCM) is an uncommon type of HCM. The sudden cardiac death is less likely to occur in the patients inflicted with AHCM (2). Herein, we presented the case of a 29-year-old man ...

The curious case of sudden cardiac death.

Death and Sudden Death

great value to the student of legal medicine. It is in fact such a book as Coull Mackenzie, if his life had been spared, might have written after long service as Police Surgeon, Calcutta. The volume deals with parts of the subject of forensic medicine which are alwajTs inadequately dealt with in ordinary treatises on legal medicine. The first part deals very fully with the phenomena of death, t...