ReviewInternational journal of legal medicine2013
Hyperthermia and postmortem biochemical investigations.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Immunohistochemical insights into hyperthermia-related deaths: a systematic review.International journal of legal medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Fatal neuroleptic malignant syndrome: a forensic case series on postmortem diagnostic challenges.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Identification of liver proteins as biomarker for postmortem diagnosis of heat stroke through proteomics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Predictive Factors and Nomogram for 30-Day Mortality in Heatstroke Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Biomarker patterns and mechanistic insights into hypothermia from a postmortem metabolomics investigation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Beyond heatwaves: A nuanced view of temperature-related mortality.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2024Review
- Attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: a universal analytical technique with promising applications in forensic analyses.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Review
- The Value of Myocardium and Kidney Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Findings in Accidental Hypothermia-Related Fatalities.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Heat-Related Illness in Emergency and Critical Care: Recommendations for Recognition and Management with Medico-Legal Considerations.Biomedicines · 2022Review
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- RHDV2 epidemic in UK pet rabbits. Part 1: clinical features, gross post mortem and histopathological findings.The Journal of small animal practice · 2020Article
- Postmortem diagnosis of fatal hypothermia/hyperthermia by spectrochemical analysis of plasma.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2019Article
- Biochemical detection of fatal hypothermia and hyperthermia in affected rat hypothalamus tissues by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.Bioscience reports · 2019Article
- Sudden death due to malignant hyperthermia with a mutation of RYR1: autopsy, morphology and genetic analysis.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2017Article
- Molecular pathology of cerebral TNF-α, IL-1β, iNOS and Nrf2 in forensic autopsy cases with special regard to deaths due to environmental hazards and intoxication.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2017Article
- Electric fences and accidental death.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2017Article
- Increased cerebral expressions of MMPs, CLDN5, OCLN, ZO1 and AQPs are associated with brain edema following fatal heat stroke.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
The postmortem diagnosis of heat-related deaths presents certain difficulties. Firstly, preterminal or terminal body temperatures are often not available. Additionally, macroscopic and microscopic findings are nonspecific or inconclusive and depend on survival duration after exposure. The diagnosis of hyperthermia is therefore essentially based on scene investigation, the circumstances of death, and the reasonable exclusion of other causes of death. Immunohistochemistry and postmortem biochemical investigations have been performed by several authors in order to better circumstantiate the physiopathology of hyperthermia and provide further information to confirm or exclude a heat-related cause of death. Biochemical markers, such as electrolytes, hormones, blood proteins, enzymes, and neurotransmitters, have been analyzed in blood and other biological fluids to improve the diagnostic potential of autopsy, histology, and immunohistochemistry. The aim of this article is to present a review of the medicolegal literature pertaining to the postmortem biochemical investigations that are associated with heat-related deaths.
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