ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2018
Differentiation of antemortem pulmonary thromboembolism and postmortem clot with unenhanced MRI: a case report.
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- Cadaver clots: a systematic review of the literature.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Pooled it
- Postmortem computed tomography assessment of intracardiac and intravascular blood clots and gravitational sedimentation: clinical and laboratory associations in 114 in-hospital deaths.Japanese journal of radiology · 2025Article
- Block-like and cast-like hyperdense areas in the right heart cavities on post-mortem CT strongly suggest the presence of intracardiac blood clots at autopsy.European radiology · 2021Article
- Pulmonary PMCT angiography by right ventricle cardiac puncture: a novel, promising approach for investigating pulmonary thromboembolism.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
- Diagnosis of pulmonary infarction in post-mortem computed tomography and post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging-a technical note.International journal of legal medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
We report a case of a 39-year-old woman who died of fulminant pulmonary thromboembolism (PE). Autopsy showed classical findings of fulminant PE with occlusion of the bilateral main stem pulmonary arteries. Ancillary testing revealed inherited thrombophilia (Prothrombin 20,210 G > A and MTHFR 677 C > T mutation). Pre-autopsy postmortem computed tomography was used to test whether virtual imaging studies alone (virtual autopsy) would be sufficient to detect PE. Our studies show that computed tomography (CT) can differentiate antemortem clots from a postmortem clot in certain cases, particularly when combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is superior in the assessment of soft tissue. We show that postmortem CT and MRI can aid in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by virtual autopsy, especially when used in conjunction.
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