Year : 2008, Volume : 8, Issue : 2
First page : ( 35) Last page : ( 37)
Print ISSN : 0972-5687. Online ISSN : 0974-083X. Published online : 2008 June 1.

Congestive Cardiac Failure - a cause of Sudden Death

Rastogi Prateek Dr.¹, Mittal Tushar²

¹Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & ToxicologyMangalore, India

²MBBS Student (Final Year), Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India

Abstract

Sudden Death in an apparently healthy young individual always raises suspicion. Analysis of circumstances surrounding death, detailed postmortem examination added with relevant investigations can solve the issue. We encountered two cases of sudden deaths in males, one aged 28 year and another 22 years. On basis of autopsy and histopathological examination cause of death was opined as congestive cardiac failure in both the cases.

Top

Keywords

Congestive cardiac failure, Sudden death, Chronic venous congestion.

Top