A Rare Cause of Sudden Death

Qt stature and physique, and there was a large r haemorrhage into the right suprarenal &<'ana. d. suprarenal arteries were tortuous and slightly J" of There was similar tortuosity and slight thickenii (he cerebral arteries and of the coronary arteries. g great vessels and the other peripheral arteries normal. The left ventricle was hypertrophied, ,)U jjty myocardium was healthy, and no other abn?rIV' e, was present in the heart. There was moderate en *? g ment of the spleen probably malarial in origin. liver showed early ' nutmeg' congestion, and there a solitary pigment stone in the gall-bladder. ^ lungs showed fairly extensive healed tuberculoid ^ the apices, especially on the right side. All the viscera, and in particular the kidneys, were norma .^e Haemorrhage into a suprarenal gland is one ? ten) rare causes of sudden death. There is no ante-mo gJ. record of this man's blood pressure, but it is a ^jg certain that it was high. It is tempting to relat ^ to the hypertrophy of the suprarenal glands an r?j speculate whether Leriche's operation of iml man's supra-renalectomy might not have prolonged the life.