Cases of Sudden Death

Two monitored cases of sudden death outside hospital.

Two patients known to have coronary artery disease died suddenly outdoors while active. Neither had symptoms or signs of acute myocardial infarction. They were being monitored by continuous tape recording of the electrocardiogram at the time of death. In one patient the cause of death was cardiac arrest, preceded by bigeminy and multiform ventricular ectopic beats, in the other ventricular fibr...

Six Cases of Cardiac Thrombosis Causing Sudden Death

sions for diarrhoea. Came to hospital at 3 A.M. on 20th January 1891, and died at 8 A.M. the same morning. The symptoms were : Hurried, troubled breathing, intense pain over heart, cyanosis and rapid death. Post-mortem.?Rigidity. Cicatrix of a bubo in left groin. Lungs.?Pigmented, engorged with blood, crepitant. Heart.?Old whitish deposit of lymph is noted in pericardium, three similar spots on...

Two Rare Cases of Sudden Death in Medico-Legal Practice

Two Unusual Cases of Sudden Death in Children

We report two unusual cases of sudden unexpected death in children. Histopathologic examination showed intimal fibroplasias, a variant of fibromuscular dysplasia of the right coronary artery associated in both cases with fatty infiltration of the right ventricular myocardium. The significance of this particular combination of two lesions known to induce a sudden death in young people is discussed.

Lung immunopathology in cases of sudden asthma death.

The histopathology of airway inflammation in rare cases of sudden asphyxic asthma death (SAAD) is unclear. This study examines, for the first time, the relative disposition of lymphocyte and macrophage subsets and eosinophils in proximal and distal tissues of such cases. Multiple resection specimens from five cases of SAAD were studied. Tissue blocks were obtained at necroscopy and immediately ...