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Citation

Palmiere C, Lesta MD, Vanhaebost J, Mangin P, Augsburger M, Vogt P. J. Forensic Sci. 2014; 59(3): 836-840.

Affiliation

University Centre of Legal Medicine, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.12362

PMID

24313840

Abstract

We herein report the case of a 36-year-old man who died suddenly after a fight with another man. Forensic investigations included unenhanced computed tomography, postmortem angiography, autopsy, histology, neuropathology, toxicology, and biochemistry and allowed a traumatic cause of death to be excluded. An electrocardiogram recorded some years prior to death revealed the presence of an early repolarization pattern. Based on the results of all investigations, the cause of death was determined to be cardiac arrhythmia and cardiac arrest during an emotionally stressful event associated with physical assault. Direct third party involvement, however, was excluded, and the manner of death was listed as natural. The case was not pursued any further by the public prosecutor.


Language: en

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