Tuberculosis Related Sudden Death:

Tuberculosis and “ Sudden Death ” c © 2001

Sudden death due to isolated adrenal tuberculosis.

A 65 year old man admitted to hospital for investigation of pleural thickening was found to have carcinoma of the prostate with metastases. Before investigations were completed the patient collapsed unexpectedly with hypotension. A post mortem examination revealed tuberculosis of both adrenal glands without evidence of tuberculosis in any other organ.

Sudden death related to myocardial infarction.

SUMMARY Sudden death as it relates to myocardial infarction (not necessarily acute) is discussed on the premise that most such deaths are due to a lethal electrical disturbance of the heart. The three sections of the first part deal with the rhythm of the heart, conduction in the heart, and neural control of the heart. In these sections consideration is made of those factors which stabilize car...

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...

Sudden death due to the Acetone toxicity

Propanone is a volatile liquid that can be absorbed by ingestion, inhalation, dermal and is distributed throughout the body. In this study, a fatal case involving acetone poisoning, who was worked in the Red Crescent Medical Center is presented. The deceased was found four hours after death. He was a 25-year-old male nurse and not married. There are the history of smoking since four years ago, ...