Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) surveillance relies on autopsy and neuropathologic evaluation. The 1990-2000 CJD autopsy rate in California was 21%. Most neurologists were comfortable diagnosing CJD (83%), but few pathologists felt comfortable diagnosing CJD (35%) or performing autopsy (29%). Addressing obstacles to autopsy is necessary to improve CJD surveillance.

During the pandemic, management of corpses for Covid-19 was carried out according to protocol by WHO. In practice, there are several difficulties in field, one which is if a sudden death where not health facility, tools needed assess whether related Covid-19. This important decide bodies treated like or not. The Ministry Health Republic Indonesia has made verbal autopsies deaths that should be ...

We present the second part of our review concerning the history of autopsy. During the development of medicine the role of autopsy was obviously changing. Concurrently with the progress in the anatomical knowledge, the anatomists observed and noted both single anomalies and repetitive changes which correlated with symptoms in living patients. This is how anatomopathology came into being. We pre...

Postmortem studies are crucial for providing insight into emergent diseases. However, a complete autopsy is frequently not feasible in highly transmissible diseases due to biohazard challenges. Minimally invasive (MIA) needle-based approach aimed at collecting samples of key organs without opening the body, which may be valid alternative these cases. We to: (a) provide biosafety guidelines cond...

OBJECTIVES To identify trends in neonatal autopsy rates at a tertiary care hospital during the last decade, to determine the concordance between antemortem and post-mortem diagnoses, and to describe patient characteristics that influenced diagnostic yield on autopsy. DESIGN Retrospective review of medical records. SETTING Tertiary care children's hospital. PATIENTS All neonatal deaths bet...