Postmortem Changes as Documented in Postmortem Computed Tomography Scans

Common Postmortem Computed Tomography Findings Following Atraumatic Death: Differentiation between Normal Postmortem Changes and Pathologic Lesions

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in postmortem investigations as an adjunct to the traditional autopsy in forensic medicine. To date, several studies have described postmortem CT findings as being caused by normal postmortem changes. However, on interpretation, postmortem CT findings that are seemingly due to normal postmortem changes initially, may not have been mere postmortem artifact...

Death due to Hypothermia: Postmortem Forensic Computed Tomography

Needle thoracentesis decompression: observations from postmortem computed tomography and autopsy.

BACKGROUND Needle thoracentesis decompression (NTD) is a recommended emergency treatment for tension pneumothorax. Current doctrine recognizes two suitable sites: the second intercostal space in the midclavicular line and the fourth or fifth intercostal space in the anterior axillary line. METHODS A review was conducted of postmortem computed tomography and autopsy results in 16 cases where N...

Postmortem changes in myoglobin content in organs.

Postmortem changes in myoglobin concentrations in blood and organs were investigated using an enzyme immunoassay by animal experiments in combination with immunohistochemical staining of human cases. Blood myoglobin concentrations were found to increase drastically within a very short time after death. Those in striated muscle, however, did not change by day 14 postmortem. Myoglobin content in ...

Postmortem Changes in Muscle Extracellular Matrix Proteins

It has long been recognized that meat tenderness is related to both the components inside the muscle fibers (predominantly the myofibril) and the connective tissues surrounding the fibers (predominantly collagen). It has also been shown that the tenderness of meat increases with time of storage postmortem. Most work attempting to determine the mechanism of this postmortem tenderization has conc...