Diagnosis of Sudden Death in Infants due to Acute Dehydration
作者:
Carol Huser,
John Smialek,
期刊:
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
(OVID Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 4
页码: 278-282
ISSN:0195-7910
年代: 1986
出版商: OVID
关键词: Sudden infant death syndrome;Dehydration-Postmortem vitreous humor chemistry;Gastrointestinal infection
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
When infants die suddenly of acute dehydration, clinical signs and autopsy findings may be equivocal or absent microbiologic cultures often are not helpful. Vitreous humor electrolyte and urea nitrogen concentrations were measured in 53 infants dying of gastrointestinal infections, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), other infectious diseases miscellaneous causes to determine whether these parameters would assist in the recognition and confirmation of deaths resulting from dehydration. Significant differences were found when comparing the mean sodium and urea nitrogen levels of infants dying of gastrointestinal infections with those succumbing to SIDS or other causes. We recommend that these determinations be routinely performed whenever the gross autopsy findings are insufficient to explain the death.
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