Cardiac biomarkers in blood, and pericardial and cerebrospinal fluids of forensic autopsy cases: A reassessment with special regard to postmortem interval

Legal Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 343-350

  Chen, Jian Hua ^a,b   Inamori Kawamoto, Osamu ^a,b   Michiue, Tomomi ^a,b   Ikeda, Sayuko ^a,b   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a,b,c   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a,b  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Medico legal Consultation and Postmortem Investigation Support Center   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood; Body fluid; Cardiac marker; Forensic biochemistry; Myocardial injury; Postmortem interval

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD LEVEL; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DROWNING; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTROCUTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEAT STROKE; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; ILIAC VEIN; INJURY SEVERITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUFFOCATION; VENOUS BLOOD; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; BATH; BLOOD; FEVER; HEART FAILURE; INFANT; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BATHS; BIOMARKERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; DROWNING; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TROPONIN T; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942296266     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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