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19364670

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-26
pubmed:abstractText
In cases of shock, the lung weight decreases due to massive hemorrhaging, but increases due to progressive congestion and edema caused by microvascular injury. To examine the relationship between postmortem lung weight and survival time, the present study investigated serial autopsy cases (n=904), including those with fatalities from blunt injury (n=328: head injury, n=191; others, n=137), sharp instrument injury (n=70), mechanical asphyxiation (n=80), intoxication (n=62), drowning (n=75), fire fatality (n=184), and acute myocardial infarction/ischemia (AMI, n=105). In acute death cases (survival time<1 h), the total lung weight was low in cases of blunt and sharp instrument injuries, higher in those of drowning and intoxication, and intermediate for cases of fire fatality, mechanical asphyxiation, and AMI. The total lung weight showed a survival time-dependent increase for blunt and sharp instrument injuries, fire fatality, and mechanical asphyxiation; however, such a finding was not seen in the cases of AMI, drowning, or intoxication. These findings suggest that an increase in lung weight due to progressive congestion and edema and a heavier lung weight may indicate a longer survival time.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1873-4162
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
11 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S238-40
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Postmortem lung weight with regard to survival time.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahi-machi 1-4-3, Abeno, 545-8585 Osaka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article