To show that right ventricular wall thickness (RVWT) measurements can be made with precision by echocardiography, we correlated these measurements with those obtained at necropsy in 32 terminal patients. The correlation between the echocardiographic diastolic right ventricular wall thickness (mean 4.0 +/- 1.62 mm) and the necropsy measurement (mean 4.3 +/- 1.52 mm) was good (r = 0.83) in all 32...

BACKGROUND The liver sampling technique in dogs that consistently provides samples adequate for accurate histopathologic interpretation is not known. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES To compare histopathologic results of liver samples obtained by punch, cup, and 14 gauge needle to large wedge samples collected at necropsy. ANIMALS Seventy dogs undergoing necropsy. METHODS Prospective study. Liver sp...

A programme of repeated personal reminders substantially reduced the delay in producing final histological reports for necropsy cases. The proportion delayed for over four weeks was reduced from 69.7% to 46.7%, and the proportion delayed for over 10 weeks was reduced from 38.6% to 11.7%. This improvement may contribute to halting and reversing the now established trend in the decline of necrops...

• Imaging detects the cause of death in a majority deceased dogs and cats. Conventional necropsies are not competed; however, they can be simplified supplemented. In cases space-occupying lesions trauma, imaging finds causes most reliably. with systemic inflammatory disease, it is difficult for to arrive at correct diagnosis. Post mortem (PM) examination euthanized or individual animals herd im...

AIMS To review the diagnostic value of using a thorough necropsy protocol for the investigation of sudden infant deaths, with particular emphasis on the value of routine ancillary laboratory investigations. METHODS The necropsy and related records of all neonatal, infant, and young childhood deaths (under three years) referred for medicolegal investigation at Dundee from 1990 to early 1998 we...

Livestock necropsy reports from diagnostic laboratories may be of interest for disease surveillance. However, they are usually created using natural language making the extraction of relevant data complicated. To evaluate necropsy reports for animal health surveillance, we first developed a text mining tool to automatically classify necropsy reports for cattle and pigs into 13 syndromic categor...