Death of a 29-Year-Old Male from Undifferentiated Sepsis by Kathryn A. Trebuss, Samantha Buttemer, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Josie Xu, John P. Rossiter, Kieran M. Moore

“…The authors report a case involving a 29-year-old male patient who died following 16 days of treatment for undifferentiated sepsis and who was found on autopsy to have widespread disseminated tuberculosis. …”
Get full text

Perforated Duodenal Diverticulum Treated Conservatively: Another Two Successful Cases by Jad A. Degheili, Mohammed H. Abdallah, Ali A. Haydar, Ahmad Moukalled, Ali H. Hallal

“…Incidence at times of autopsy ranges from 15 to 23%. Despite the fact that more than 90% of duodenal diverticulum cases are asymptomatic, complications if they do occur can be calamitous. …”
Get full text

Rapidly Progressing Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Case Report and a Possible Explanation by Ádám Jóna, Gábor Irsai, Sándor Barna, Gábor Méhes, Árpád Illés, László Váróczy

“…Current and retrospective histological examination of the patient’s lymph node biopsy, skin lesion, and autopsy revealed the same aberrantly expressing CD4 positive nodular sclerosis subtype Hodgkin lymphoma. …”
Get full text

Duodenal Diverticular Perforation after Small Bowel Obstruction: A Case Report by Khuram Khan, Saqib Saeed, Haytham Maria, Mohammed Sbeih, Farhana Iqbal, Alexius Ramcharan, Brian Donaldson

“…The incidence of duodenal diverticulum diagnosed by upper GI study is approximately 5%. Autopsy results show that 22% of the population have duodenum diverticulum. …”
Get full text

Extensive Thrombosis of the Inferior Vena Cava and Left Renal Vein in a Neonate by Moez Kdous, Oussema Khlifi, Marwene Brahem, Mohamed Khrouf, Sarah Amari, Monia Ferchiou, Fethi Zhioua

“…The baby died 20 days later of kidney failure, metabolic acidosis, and polypnea with severe hypotrophy. Autopsy revealed atrophied kidneys and adrenal glands. …”
Get full text

E. coli Meningitis Presenting in a Patient with Disseminated Strongyloides stercoralis by Juliana B. Gomez, Yvan Maque, Manuel A. Moquillaza, William E. Anicama

“…Three days later the patient died in the intensive care unit due to septic shock. Autopsy was performed and microscopic examination revealed the presence of multiple Strongyloides larvae throughout the body. …”
Get full text

Hearing Loss due to Infiltration of the Tympanic Membrane by Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia by Jonathon B. Cohen, Robert Cavaliere, John C. Byrd, Leslie A. Andritsos

“…Central nervous system (CNS) involvement by chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can present with dramatic neurologic findings or can be quite subtle, discovered only at the time of autopsy. We describe a case of CLL in a patient who presented initially with hearing loss and was ultimately found to have involvement of the tympanic membrane. …”
Get full text

Development of Asthma Mouse Model By Dermal Sensitization by Isameldin Abdalla, Amir A. Bashir

“…G1 was treated with 25μL of 0.3% TDI in acetone olive oil (AOO) applied on the same days. Autopsy and samples (blood, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid [BALF], and lung tissue) collection were performed on day 12. …”
Get full text

A Case of Urachal Carcinoma of the Abdominal Wall in a Kidney Transplant Recipient by Takuya Yamazaki, Yasushi Nagaba, Yoshitaka Shimada, Yoshinori Taoka, Satoru Minamida, Dai Koguchi, Masahiro Hagiwara, Sho Watanuki, Hide Nagaba, Kazunari Yoshida, Yasuo Takeuchi

“…His ileus symptoms improved temporarily, but he died of myocardial infarction. An autopsy was performed, which revealed cystadenocarcinoma in the abdominal wall mass, leading to a diagnosis of urachal carcinoma.…”
Get full text

Structural and Functional Fundamentals of Alcoholic Disease by V. S. Paukov, T. M. Voronina, Yu. A. Kirillov, E. M. Malysheva

“…The empirical basis of the study consisted in the analysis of autopsy results obtained from 1,115 corpses of persons having abused alcohol during their lifetime. …”
Get full text

Chemokine Expression in Human Astrocytes in Response to Shiga Toxin 2 by Naomi Kioka, Koichi Minami, Akira Tamura, Norishige Yoshikawa

“…Approximately, 30% of patients with HUS suffer from complications in the central nervous system (CNS), which is an important determinant of mortality in such patients. Autopsy shows mostly edema and hypoxic-ischemic changes in the CNS, often with microhemorrhages. …”
Get full text

Low Grade Islet but Marked Exocrine Pancreas Inflammation in an Adult with Autoimmune Pre-Diabetes by Hiroshi Nomoto, Tatyana Gurlo, Madeline Rosenberger, Mark D. Girgis, Sarah Dry, Peter C. Butler

“…We obtained pancreas from an individual with pre-T1D obtained at surgery and addressed the question, what is the relative inflammation in the exocrine and endocrine pancreas in pre-T1D in the absence of the potential confounding changes at autopsy or in brain dead organ donors. Pancreas was removed surgically from a 36 year woman for benign neuroendocrine tumors (NET). …”
Get full text

CT Findings and Mortality in Patients with Nontraumatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Pedro Juan Barrios Fuentes, José Luis Bernal Muñoz, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Anagalys Ortega Alvelay, Liliana Teresa Caneiro González

“…In the case of dead patients the autopsy reports were included. Patients were characterized according to demographic and tomographic variables, considered as risk factors for the type of analyzed hemorrhage. …”
Get full text

A Case of De Novo CD5+ Disseminated Intravascular Large B-Cell Lymphoma Presenting as Multiorgan Failure by Daulath Singh, Devika Kapuria, Suparna Nanua, Rakesh Gaur

“…A bone marrow biopsy showed 20–30% CD5+ B cells consistent with infiltrative large B-cell lymphoma. An autopsy performed revealed diffuse intravascular invasion by lymphoma cells. …”
Get full text

Pulmonary and Meningeal Cryptococcosis after Corticosteroid Therapy for Autoimmune Hepatitis: Coexistence of Cryptococci within Pulmonary Cancer Nodule by Takashi Yuri, Ayako Kimura, Katsuhiko Yoshizawa, Yuko Emoto, Yuichi Kinoshita, Airo Tsubura

“…In addition to continuous cryptococcal infection, complications of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and methicillin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus infection caused death after a 2-month hospitalization. Autopsy disclosed encapsulated yeast in the lungs and subarachnoid space characteristic of Cryptococcus. …”
Get full text

Uterine Sarcoidosis: A Rare Extrapulmonary Site of Sarcoidosis by Creticus P. Marak, Narendrakumar Alappan, Amit Chopra, Olena Dorokhova, Sumita Sinha, Achuta K. Guddati

“…In majority of cases, it is diagnosed by endometrial curettage, but it has also been detected by examination of hysterectomy, polypectomy, and autopsy specimens. Nonnecrotizing granulomas are the characteristic pathologic finding of sarcoidosis. …”
Get full text

A Sensitive and Rapid Method for Detecting Formaldehyde in Brain Tissues by Xiangpei Yue, Yaoyue Zhang, Wen Xing, Yutong Chen, Chenyang Mu, Zhan Miao, Peichun Ge, Tingting Li, Rongqiao He, Zhiqian Tong

“…Using this method, an abnormally high level of FA was detected in both the brains of FA-injected mice and autopsy hippocampus tissues from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. …”
Get full text

Diagnosing Cardiac Amyloidosis: From Heart Failure to Electrical Storm by Adithya T. Mathews, Abu-Sayeef Mirza, Chandrashekar Bohra, Akshay G. Mathews, Philip Ritucci-Chinni, Jamie L. Weber, William W. Bulkeley, Maqsood Siddique, David Whitaker, Richard Bowerman

“…She developed electrical storm and eventually passed within 24 hours. Autopsy revealed gross cardiomegaly and left ventricular hypertrophy with Congo red staining revealing amyloid fibrils with apple-green birefringence. …”
Get full text

Clinical signs and post-mortem lesions caused by clostridial enterotoxemia in rabbits by A. S. Metleva, M. N. Khakimzyanova, E. E. Sionikhin

“…Mortality was less reported in breeding stock and among replacement young animals. Autopsy revealed signs of enterotoxemia: serous-catarrhal gastritis, serous-hemorrhagic lymphonodulitis, degenerated kidneys, liver and heart muscle; passive congestion of lungs and pulmonary edema. …”
Get full text

Multimodal Elimination for Intoxication with a Lethal Dose of Organic Mercury by L. C. Napp, C. Moelgen, F. Wegner, P. Heitland, H. D. Koester, M. Klintschar, M. Hiss, A. Schaper, B. Schieffer, J. Bauersachs, A. Schäfer, J. Tongers

“…He awoke and was sent to rehabilitation, but unfortunately died 7 months later from refractory status epilepticus. Autopsy revealed severe brain atrophy consistent with organ damage from massive mercury intoxication. …”
Get full text