Arrhythmogenesis and diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis. An immunohistochemical study in a sudden cardiac death

Insight into stress-induced cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death due to stress. A forensic cardio-pathologist point of view

“…The large interindividual differences may reflect variable responses to sympathetic activity, it may be accounted for by genetic inheritance, and it may play a role in the development of SICM [31]. This is a still relatively unknown field worth investigation to understand SICM, malignant arrhythmias and related cardiac arrest [32,33]. …”

Time-dependent organic changes of intravenous thrombi in stasis-induced deep vein thrombosis model and its application to thrombus age determination

“…There have been many forensic studies on the age estimation of skin wounds or brain contusions [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and those on postmortem diagnosis [34][35][36][37] with the development of immunohistochemistry. However, to the best of our knowledge, there have been only two forensic studies on thrombus age estimation using immunostaining [8,38].…”

Histological Diagnosis of Myocardial Sarcoidosis in a Fatal Fall from a Height

“…In both cases, the myocardial conduction system is particularly vulnerable to the sarcoid granulomas (13,14). A complete heart block is the most common clinical onset in young patients (12), and many authors have reported cases of sudden death because of the myocardial involvement (15,16). Milder degrees of conducting disturbances, including first‐degree heart blocks and various types of intraventricular conduction defects, which could initially be silent but can progress to a symptomatic complete heart block with syncopal episodes, have also been described (12).…”