Estudio necrópsico de la muerte súbita cardíaca de origen isquémico, en un cuerpo en avanzado estado de descomposición
- González Herrera, Lucas
- González Medina, Alejandro
- Giménez Ríos, Gilberto
- Valenzuela Garach, Aurora
ISSN: 2174-9019
Year of publication: 2012
Issue: 3
Type: Article
More publications in: Gaceta internacional de ciencias forenses
Abstract
It´s evident that the changes that begin in the corpse as a consequence of putrefaction are important obstacles to determine the cause of death. Even in a body in an advanced stage of decomposition, a detailed autopsy can provide great information about the ethiology of death and postmortem interval (PMI). In the case under study, despite having a body in colliquative stage, we can establish that the cause of death was, with a high level of certainty, a sudden cardiac death (SCD) of ischemic origin. This conclusion was reached through analysis of the findings in the body during the autopsy, along with the pathophysiology of ischemic SCD and the key elements that characterize this type of death. Also it was determined a PMI of two weeks approximately.