TITLE:
Forensic-Pathological Analysis of Blunt Cardiac Rupture Involving the Relationship between Injury and Disease: 2 Cases Report and Review of the Literature
AUTHORS:
Qi Wang, Lingyun Yang, Yinming Zhang, Yao Yao, Haijun He, Zhenyuan Wang
KEYWORDS:
Heart, Rupture, Cause, Forensic Pathology
JOURNAL NAME:
Forensic Medicine and Anatomy Research,
Vol.4 No.2,
March
31,
2016
ABSTRACT: Blunt cardiac rupture is a characteristic of high death rates and rapid death process. But sometimes it is hard to find out the cause of cardiac rupture of traumatized patients, especially when it relates the relationship between injury and disease. In the 2 cases reported herein, both of the 2 patients had pre-existent cardiac pathological changes when suffered from traumatic injury. Our aim is to evaluate autopsy findings from a medicolegal point of view, and offer our proposals on how to deal with this sort of cases.