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Hypothermic death: Possibility of diagnosis by post-mortem computed tomography
- Source :
- European Journal of Radiology. 82:361-365
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Referring to our experience with post-mortem computed tomography (CT), many hypothermic death cases presented a lack of increase in lung-field concentration, blood clotting in the heart, thoracic aorta or pulmonary artery, and urine retention in the bladder. Thus we evaluated the diagnostic performance of post-mortem CT on hypothermic death based on the above-mentioned three findings. Twenty-four hypothermic death subjects and 53 non-hypothermic death subjects were examined. Two radiologists assessed the presence or lack of an increase in lung-field concentration, blood clotting in the heart, thoracic aorta or pulmonary artery, and measured urine volume in the bladder. Pearson's chi-square test and Mann-Whitney U-test were used to assess the relationship between the three findings and hypothermic death. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of the diagnosis were also calculated. Lack of an increase in lung-field concentration and blood clotting in the heart, thoracic aorta or pulmonary artery were significantly associated with hypothermic death (p=0.0007, p
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Autopsy
Computed tomography
Hypothermia
Urine
Sensitivity and Specificity
Japan
Cause of Death
Internal medicine
medicine.artery
Humans
Medicine
Thoracic aorta
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Cause of death
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Incidence
Incidence (epidemiology)
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Pulmonary artery
Cardiology
Female
Radiology
medicine.symptom
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0720048X
- Volume :
- 82
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3bfc12c2e513ec00d23b8171fbdde761