Mental disorder as an example of sequelae of cerebral hypoxia-ischemia in case of acute blood loss in forensic medicine

Abstract

Defining the full range of injuries and their causes is one of the most important issues in forensic medicine. Particularly difficult and insufficiently developed is the assessment of injuries manifested in a mental disorder. Forensic diagnostics in this case requires knowledge of the mechanism of injury, the peculiarities of the formation of injuries, and their correlation with neuropathological disorders. Presented is the case in which a complex of processes in response to the primary injury and pathological processes attached to the injury led to structural and functional insufficiency of the brain (encephalopathy), the manifestation of which was an organic mental disorder. Its analysis contributes to the understanding of the process of decoding the information contained in the objects of expertise, assessing the elements of the cause-and-effect relationship and making scientifically based expert conclusions.