University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tîrgu Mureş School of Doctoral Studies Histomorphological and biostatistical study in the forensic pulmonary pathology

Pathology of the respiratory system and especially lung pathology has multiple implications in the daily forensic activity and represents a challenging domain of research as well. In the general part of the research work I present the most important data from the literature concerning lung anatomy and histology, elementary lung morphologic lesions, histomorphology of shock lung, physiopathology of burn lesions and of the respiratory trauma after smoke inhalation, pulmonary and vascular pulmonary microscopic changes in hypoxic states, elements of drug-related deaths and physiopathology of drug intoxication. The second part of the study has three chapters and includes a general overview of the pulmonary pathology in the forensic autopsies, a study of the pulmonary lesions in drug-related deaths and a study of lung modifications following burns and heat-related deaths.