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Iannaccone SF, Kholová I, Ginelliová A, Fröhlichová L, Farkaš D. Segmental arterial mediolysis leading to spontaneous rupture of splenic artery and fatal hemorrhage in pregnancy. Cardiovasc Pathol 2024:107650. [PMID: 38677635 DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2024.107650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2024] [Revised: 04/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024] Open
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We report an unexpected death of a 22-year-old primigravida who was admitted to the hospital with sudden abdominal pain two days before a scheduled delivery. During an emergency caesarean section due to intrauterine asphyxia, intraabdominal bleeding was observed with no apparent source of bleeding. Newly formed blood clots in the subdiaphragmatic space and arterial bleeding near the splenic hilum required a surgery on the next day. Hemorrhagic shock led to multiple organ failure on the fourth day of admission. The autopsy revealed ruptured splenic artery at the pancreatic tail and near the splenic hilum. Microscopically, different stages of segmental arterial mediolysis were observed in partially thinned and aneurysmatic artery.
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- Silvia Farkašová Iannaccone
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Trieda SNP 1, 040 11 Košice, Slovakia.
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- Pathology, Fimlab Laboratories, Arvo Ylpön katu 4, 33520 Tampere, Finland; Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Arvo Ylpön katu 34, 33520 Tampere, Finland.
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, Health Care Surveillance Authority, Ipeľská 1, 043 74 Košice, Slovakia.
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- Department of Pathology, Louis Pasteur University Hospital, Rastislavova 43, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia.
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, Health Care Surveillance Authority, Ipeľská 1, 043 74 Košice, Slovakia.
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Iannaccone SF, Sedmera D, Ginelliová A, Bohuš P, Mistríková L, Farkaš D. Cor Triatriatum Dexter Associated with an Ostium Primum Atrial Defect and Left-Sided Opening of the Coronary Sinus in a Stillborn Fetus. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2023; 10:370. [PMID: 37754799 PMCID: PMC10532305 DOI: 10.3390/jcdd10090370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Revised: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
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Cor triatriatum is a very rare cardiac malformation characterized by the presence of an abnormal interatrial membrane separating either the left or right atrial chamber into two compartments. It can be associated with other cardiac defects and is often symptomatic in childhood. The signs depend on the size and position of the interatrial membrane and other associated malformations. Here we report a case of right-sided cor triatriatum associated with an ostium primum-type interatrial septum defect and left-sided opening of the coronary sinus in a fetus. The cause of intrauterine death was asphyxia due to total placental abruption.
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- Silvia Farkašová Iannaccone
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, 041 80 Košice, Slovakia;
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- Institute of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, 043 74 Košice, Slovakia; (A.G.); (D.F.)
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- Department of Pathology, Louis Pasteur University Hospital, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia;
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- Department of Heart Surgery, East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, 040 11 Košice, Slovakia;
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, 043 74 Košice, Slovakia; (A.G.); (D.F.)
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Farkašová Iannaccone S, Ginelliová A, Farkaš D, Sopková D. Suicide by sharp force associated with major self-mutilation and self-cannibalism. Forensic Sci Med Pathol 2023:10.1007/s12024-023-00674-7. [PMID: 37450169 DOI: 10.1007/s12024-023-00674-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Self-stabbing and self-cutting represents an uncommon method of suicide. We present a case of a 30-year-old man who was found dead in the forest. The body was naked and showed multiple cut and stab wounds on different parts of the body (face, neck, chest, abdomen, and extremities). A single-edged kitchen knife was found approximately 20 m from the body. Parts of both ears, the fifth toe of the right foot, and the scrotum were cut off. At the autopsy, two of the severed body parts-the toe and the part of the left ear-were found in the stomach. The cause of death was asphyxiation due to blood aspiration resulting from a cut throat injury. A police investigation uncovered a history of substance abuse and two previous suicidal attempts using a knife. Upon complex analysis of all the evidence, the manner of death was ruled a suicide, which was preceded by actions of major self-mutilation and self-cannibalism, both considered rare behavioral patterns.
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- Silvia Farkašová Iannaccone
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Trieda SNP 1, 040 11, Košice, Slovakia
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, Ipeľská 1, Košice, 043 74, Slovakia
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, Ipeľská 1, Košice, 043 74, Slovakia
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Trieda SNP 1, 040 11, Košice, Slovakia.
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Ginelliová A, Farkaš D, Farkašová Iannaccone S. A Fatal Case of an Undiagnosed Ruptured Aneurysm of the Noncoronary Sinus of Valsalva. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2023; 44:e13-e14. [PMID: 36223436 DOI: 10.1097/paf.0000000000000802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Alžbeta Ginelliová
- From the Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority
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- From the Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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Farkaš D, Pisarčíková M, Vasovčák P, Crhová A, Ginelliová A, Mistríková L, Fröhlichová L, Farkašová Iannaccone S. Ventricular fibrillation and arrhythmia associated with cardiac fibromas involving both ventricles in a 1.5-year-old girl. Rechtsmedizin (Berl) 2023; 33:218-222. [PMID: 36778761 PMCID: PMC9904519 DOI: 10.1007/s00194-023-00615-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/24/2022] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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This article reports the autopsy findings of a 1.5-year-old girl with no history of previous hospital admission who suddenly collapsed at home. After 45 minutes of resuscitation efforts, the cardiac activity was restored. During hospitalization, she had ventricular arrhythmia and extremely elevated cardiac troponin levels. Internal examination and immunohistochemistry revealed cardiac fibromas of the right and left ventricles and extensive hypoxic myocardial damage. The right ventricular fibroma demonstrated interdigitating and entrapped myocardium visible at the edges and within the central portion of the tumor. The left ventricular fibroma originated in the subepicardial region and propagated towards the endocardium.
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- Daniel Farkaš
- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, Ipeľská 1, P. O. Box 014, 043 74 Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Intensive Medicine, Children’s University Hospital and Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Agel Nový Jičín, a.s., Nový Jičín, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Agel Nový Jičín, a.s., Nový Jičín, Czech Republic
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, Ipeľská 1, P. O. Box 014, 043 74 Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Heart Surgery, East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Pathology, Louis Pasteur University Hospital, Košice, Slovakia
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Farkašová Iannaccone S, Koščo M, Ginelliová A, Sihotský V, Mistríková L, Dettmeyer R, Farkaš D. Fatal bleeding following left internal jugular vein cannulation associated with type A1 endoleak, false aneurysm and aortobronchopulmonary fistula. Rechtsmedizin (Berl) 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00194-022-00557-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Farkašová Iannaccone S, Ginelliová A, Sopková D, Mistríková L, Fröhlichová L, Dettmeyer R, Farkaš D. A Fatal Case of Cardiac Contusion After Blunt Chest Injury. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2021; 42:70-72. [PMID: 32732593 DOI: 10.1097/paf.0000000000000590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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ABSTRACT In this article, we report the autopsy findings of a 48-year-old man who sustained blunt trauma to the thorax. A medical record review revealed no history of cardiac disease. He presented to the hospital with a computed tomography-verified fracture of the left fourth and fifth ribs, and pulmonary and cardiac contusion. He was released from the hospital in stable condition at his own request 7 days later. Because of sudden deterioration, he was readmitted to the hospital the next day. Electrocardiogram detected cardiac arrhythmia on the 15th day after chest trauma. Electrocardiography detected pericardial effusion and severe mitral insufficiency resulting in left ventricular failure. Death was attributed to diffuse alveolar damage-complicating pneumonia due to cardiac contusion with mitral insufficiency occurring 25 days after hospital admission. Internal examination revealed diffuse fibrinous pericarditis, left atrial tear right above the anterior mitral valve leaflet with intrapericardial granulation tissue, and no sign of myocardial damage. Immunohistochemistry showed significantly more CD68-positive macrophages within tissue taken from the heart, a finding indicative of previous atrial and ventricular myocardial contusion. This case report demonstrates that routine hematoxylin and eosin staining may not always reveal significant myocardial damage.
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority
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- From the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
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- Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
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- Department of Pathology, Louis Pasteur University Hospital, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority
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Iannaccone SF, Švajdler P, Švajdler M, Sopková D, Ginelliová A, Šprláková J, Petrášová M, Fröhlichová L, Farkaš D. Secondary pulmonary hypoplasia associated with calcified Meckel´s diverticulum with osseous metaplasia. Cesk Patol 2021; 57:44-48. [PMID: 33910348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In this paper, we report autopsy findings of a 1-day old full-term mature female neonate with pulmonary hypoplasia diagnosed postnatally. Death was attributed to acute respiratory failure due to hyaline membrane disease. We describe pathological features of calcified Meckels diverticulum with osseous metaplasia and inflammatory changes in adjacent peritoneum. As far as we know, this case report documents the youngest patient ever diagnosed with calcified Meckels diverticulum with osseous metaplasia.
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Farkaš D, Kružlíková A, Němcová J, Hrabovský V, Iannaccone SF, Ginelliová A, Fröhlichová L, Švajdler M. Undiagnosed cryptococcal meningoencephalitis with extensive hypoxic-ischemic brain injury mimicking grade 3 diffuse axonal injury. Cesk Patol 2021; 57:167-173. [PMID: 34551566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In this article, we report the autopsy findings of a 50-year-old immunocompetent woman, who was hospitalized with an altered state of consciousness. Examinations, including cerebrospinal fluid analysis, carried out during hospitalization failed to identify the infectious agent causing progressive loss of consciousness and quadriparesis. The patient died within 8 days of admission to the hospital. Post-mortem microscopic and culture examination revealed Cryptococcus species. Death was attributed to cryptococcal meningoencephalitis. Histologic examination revealed accumulation of cryptococcus mimicking erythrocytes and extensive hemorrhage in hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections of the brain. Multifocal obliteration of the vascular bed by yeast was accompanied by hypoxic-ischemic brain injury mimicking traumatic diffuse axonal injury.
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Gombošová L, Deptová J, Podracký J, Farkaš D, Lazúrová I. Recurring Asystole and Paradoxical Air Embolization in a Patient with a Patent Foramen Ovale Treated with Home Parenteral Nutrition. Eur J Case Rep Intern Med 2020; 7:001576. [PMID: 33194850 PMCID: PMC7654998 DOI: 10.12890/2020_001576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Home parenteral nutrition is a therapeutic option for chronic intestinal failure. A tunnelled central venous catheter is commonly used for self-application of nutrition and hydration over a long period of time; that is, months or years. Air embolization within the venous circulation can be caused by inconsistent self-handling of the catheter in combination with air bubbles in the infusion set. Paradoxical air embolization within the brain and coronary arteries together with catheter perforation is a rare medical and technical complication. The authors report the case of a 63-year-old woman with type 3 chronic intestinal failure treated with home parenteral nutrition. During the first year of treatment and use of the catheter a fatal complication occurred. The patient experienced recurring asystolic episodes and strokes with monoplegia during flushing of the catheter. Although 2 resuscitations were successful, the third was not, and the patient died. The cause of these life-threatening complications was an unknown patent foramen ovale, with paradoxical air embolization within the coronary and brain arteries. The authors discuss the clinical consequences of arterial and venous air embolization, the differences between these and the therapeutic algorithm with a link to practice. LEARNING POINTS Home parenteral nutrition using a Hickman central venous catheter is a therapeutic option for chronic intestinal failure.Paradoxical air embolization is a rare complication with an unknown patent foramen ovale.A very small volume of air (0.5-3 ml) in coronary or brain arteries can cause fatal complications such as asystole and brain ischaemia.
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- Laura Gombošová
- 1st Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of L. Pasteur and Medical Faculty of P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- 1st Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of L. Pasteur and Medical Faculty of P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Cardiology Clinic, Eastern Slovak Cardiology Institute, Košice, Slovakia
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of P.J. Šafarik, Košice, Slovakia
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- 1st Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of L. Pasteur and Medical Faculty of P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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Iannaccone Farkašová S, Sopková D, Švajdler M, Farkaš D, Mistríková L, Mezencev R. Chronic dissecting aneurysm of ascending aorta with a large intramural thrombus and isolated aortic defects. Cesk Patol 2019; 55:115-119. [PMID: 31181944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We present macroscopic and microscopic findings in a case of chronic dissecting aneurysm of ascending aorta and aortic arch associated with isolated tears of aortic wall without its rupture in a 71-year-old female presenting with minimal clinical symptomatology. Aneurysmal dilation of the aorta was caused not only by the bridging of the vascular wall based on the presence of an organizing intramural thrombus in the false lumen between the separated layers, but also by a wide flat defect in the aortic intima and media with the preservation of the aortic wall integrity due to fibrotical alteration of tunica adventicia. Histologic examination of the thoracic aorta detected cystic medial degeneration with mild atherosclerosis.
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Iannaccone SF, Švajdler P, Sopková D, Fröhlichová L, Farkaš D. Incidental idiopathic focal sclerosing mesenteritis in a 4-month-old child. Cesk Patol 2019; 55:235-238. [PMID: 31842555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare non-cancerous disease affecting the small bowel mesentery, which occurs predominantly in older age. The exact etiology is not known. Clinical symptoms are very variable and they include abdominal pain and distention, nausea, and vomiting. We present a case of a 4-month-old boy, who died suddenly at home. Based on the investigation of the circumstances of death, results of toxicology tests and histological examination the case was concluded as sudden infant death syndrome. During life, the child had repeated abdominal pain with distention. Secondary autopsy finding was a significant thickening of terminal ileum mesentery the length of 2,5 cm, with thickness reaching up to 1,5 cm and affecting almost half the circumference of the small intestine. According to the current literature, the case discussed in this article is the youngest recorded.
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Iannaccone Farkašová S, Vasovčák P, Sopková D, Pisarčíková M, Švajdler M, Fröhlichová L, Mistríková L, Farkaš D. Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with cardiac involvement. Cesk Patol 2019; 55:176-181. [PMID: 31726844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative disorders with clinical presentation predominantly in the childhood. The NCLs represent lysosomal storage disorders characterized by the accumulation of autofluorescent lipopigment storage material. The most common clinical features include development failure, psychomotor regression, seizures, and progressive loss of vision. We present a case of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with cardiac involvement diagnosed post-mortem in a 9,5-year-old boy, whose clinical symptomatology comprised partial epilepsy, psychomotor decline and sinus bradycardia. In contrast to ventricular hypertrophy, being more frequently associated with NCLs, we discovered cardiac atrophy. Histologic examination of the heart revealed not only the lipofuscinosis affecting cardiac conducting cells and cardiomyocytes, but also basophilic degeneration of myocardium.
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Iannaccone SF, Ginelliová A, Šantová I, Šanta M, Farkaš D, Morochovič R, Fröhlichová L, Balik V. Redistribution of acute traumatic infratentorial subdural hematoma to the spinal subdural space. Soud Lek 2018; 63:25-28. [PMID: 30445814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Spinal subdural hematoma is a rare and potentionally life-threatening condition associated with trauma and other pathological conditions. In this paper we report the autopsy findings of a 64 year old male who was repeatedly hospitalized with traumatic head injuries in the past. In this case spinal subdural hematoma was diagnosed post-mortem and later comfirmed by ante-mortem CT scan revaluation. Keywords: intracranial subdural hematoma - recurrent spinal subdural hematoma - diffuse axonal injury - autopsy findings.
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Farkaš D, Matěj R, Švajdler MM, Sluková M, Seligová J, Fröhlichová L, Farkašová Iannaccone S, Vyhnálková V, Ginelliová A. [Unusual histopathological picture of acute lung injury in different stages of resorption with predominance of organizing pneumonia in a young man with influenza A (H1N1)]. Cesk Patol 2017; 53:38-42. [PMID: 28248121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this case report the authors describe histomorphological findings of acute lung injury with laboratory-confirmed influenza type A(H1N1) pneumonia leading to the death of a 30 year-old unvaccinated man after 27 days of hospitalisation. Histologically all three types of acute lung injuries were unusually present (diffuse alveolar damage, acute interstitial pneumonia, organizing pneumonia) in different phases of resorption and reparation with transition to extensive fibrosis.
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Ginelliová A, Farkaš D, Iannaccone SF, Vyhnálková V, Vasovčák P. Sudden death associated with syndromic craniosynostosis. Forensic Sci Med Pathol 2016; 12:506-509. [PMID: 27891566 DOI: 10.1007/s12024-016-9818-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this paper we report the autopsy findings of a 7 year old girl who presented with headache, nausea and repeated vomiting and died unexpectedly at home. She had no previous history of major illnesses and no history of epileptic seizures. External examination revealed ocular abnormalities. Internal examination demonstrated severe cerebral edema with tonsillar herniation, premature fusion of the cranial bone sutures, and prominent convolutional markings of the inner table of the skull. Death was due to severe cerebral edema complicating syndromic craniosynostosis. The craniofacial features in this case were in keeping with a diagnosis of Crouzon syndrome which was confirmed by molecular testing of the FGFR2 gene. Crouzon syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by premature fusion of the cranial bone sutures resulting in distinctive malformations of the craniofacial region.
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- Alžbeta Ginelliová
- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, Letná 47, 040 01, Košice, Slovak Republic.
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, Letná 47, 040 01, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Trieda SNP 1, 040 11, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Medico-Legal and Pathological-Anatomical Department of Health Care Surveillance Authority, Letná 47, 040 01, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Alpha Medical s.r.o., Hraničná 2, 040 17, Košice, Slovak Republic
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Farkašová Iannaccone S, Farkaš D, Švajdler Ml M, Kaťuchová J, Vyhnálková V, Sihotský V. [Non-traumatic arteriovenous malformation of the spleen with fatal hemorrhage]. Cesk Patol 2016; 52:107-111. [PMID: 27223590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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From the medical point of view, splenic rupture developed either as a result of traumatic injury or as a result of any type of splenic disease represents a very severe and life-threatening condition. We describe the case of a 65-year old man without any obvious traumatic injury who was hospitalised because of left abdominal pain. Investigations performed at admission to the hospital (RTG, USG) failed to indicate any signs of intraabdominal bleeding. However, the patient died suddenly after 24 hours of hospitalisation. At autopsy massive intraabdominal bleeding was found. It was caused by rupture of splenic intraparenchymal hematoma developed as a result of an arteriovenous malformation in the lower pole of the spleen. This case shows the necessity of knowledge of all circumstances of death as well as the necessity of consistent histological investigation of the spleen in such cases.
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Iannaccone SF, Klán J, Lamps LW, Farkaš D, Švajdler Ml M, Szabo M. [Intracardial fungal multiplication of order Mucor in an almost totally carbonised part of a male body found after ten days missing]. Soud Lek 2016; 61:35-38. [PMID: 27526266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Determination of time of death belongs to the most difficult and also the most important issues for the medical examiners, especially those who deal with violent death. Besides the most frequently evaluated postmortal changes it is sometimes possible to perform the evaluation on the basis of less frequently observed findings. One of such findings is for example the fungal multiplication on the body or in the very close vicinity. Knowledge of moulds as well as information about their speed of growth should contribute to confirmation or negation of some information gained during police investigation. In this case report authors describe the macroscopically visible fungal intracardiac multiplication in heart chambers and aorta in an almost totally carbonised body which was missing for only ten days. Based on the molecular examination it was detected that the body belonged to the 64-year-old man who was repeatedly hospitalised in psychiatry for depression with suicidal tendencies. The last hospitalisation was six weeks before death and there was no organic disability. The cause of fire was a naked flame. The cause of death was burn injury or asphyxia. The almost total carbonisation did not allow to perform toxicological investigation. By histological investigation we found the presence of wide long non-septate moulds growing in the heart muscle, which belonged to the order Mucor. Since there was no obvious inflammatory response, we suppose their growth started on the congealed blood after death.
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Ginelliová A, Farkaš D, Farkašová Iannaccone S. Truncus arteriosus communis with survival to the age of 46 years: case report. Soud Lek 2015; 60:37-39. [PMID: 26419518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Truncus arteriosus communis is an uncommon congenital cardiovascular malformation characterized by a single arterial trunk that arises from the base of the heart and gives rise to the coronary, pulmonary and systemic arteries. The prognosis in truncus arteriosus is very poor without surgical correction. The median age at death without surgery ranges from 2 weeks to 3 months, with 85 % mortality by age 1 year. The authors report the autopsy findings of a 46 year old man with truncus arteriosus communis without surgical intervention who died at the hospital shortly after admission.
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Farkaš D, Švajdler Ml M, Fröhlichová L, Šprláková J, Iannaccone SF, Szép Z, Nyitrayová O. [Unusual lung finding of massive alveolar filling with foamy macrophages in congenital epidermolysis bullosa after amnion fluid aspiration in 15-day-old newborn without any clinical signs of respiratory impairment]. Cesk Patol 2015; 51:89-93. [PMID: 25970721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Epidermolysis bullosa represents a group of mechanobullous diseases which are most commonly genetically determined. We describe the case of a 15-day-old female newborn with congenital epidermolysis bullosa which was inflicted on aproximately 1/3 of her skin surface, who died because of incorrigible sepsis with multiorgan failure. The main topic of our report is a description of an unusual pulmonary finding of massive alveolar filling with foamy macrophages after amnion fluid aspiration, which contained a excessive amount of desquamated epidermal cells. Introduced case shows outstanding discrepancy of negative clinical finding on one side and massive histopathological finding on the other.
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Farkaš D, Špak Ľ, Švajdler Ml M, Iannaccone SF, Sihotský V, Kaťuchová J, Ginelliová A. [Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of descendent thoracic aorta solved by aortal stentgraft repair followed by development of fatal aortoesophageal fistula]. Soud Lek 2015; 60:46-50. [PMID: 26585305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Traumatic pseudoaneurysms are relatively frequently mentioned in textbooks of pathology and forensic medicine but their incidence in pathological reports is seldom documented. Our described case presented a patient who suffered from chronic alcoholism and who was repeatedly hospitalised because of various injuries including epidural and subdural hematomas. We present a case of a 69-year-old man who was hospitalised after nonspecific blunt chest injury with chest pain and dysphagia. By computed tomography the traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descendent thoracic aorta was diagnosed pressing the oesophageal wall which was solved by implantation of aortal stent graft (TEVAR - thoracic endovascular aortic/aneurysm repair). Since after the implantation there was no blood leak, no progression of the lesion, he was soon discharged from hospital. The patient was hospitalised again after two months for newly developed haemoptysis. On suspicion of bleeding from aortal arch a carotid-carotid bypass from right to left side was performed and then re-TEVAR was implanted proximally to the first one. The man died two days following the implantation after a massive bleeding from oesophagus due to aortoesophageal fistula. The presented case deals with the etiology of the development of pseudoaneurysms, histomorphological picture of pseudoaneurysm resembling not only an isolated thoracic aortitis but slightly also the Takayashu disease. We suppose that in this case the most probable cause of necrosis and perforation of aortal wall was a decubital necrosis caused by stent graft which led to the fatal aortoesophageal necrosis. Aortoesophageal fistula belongs to the most common lethal complications of the TEVAR.
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Farkaš D, Svajdler Ml M, Iannaccone SF, Labaj P. [Undiagnosed Whipple's disease with a lethal outcome]. Cesk Patol 2013; 49:95-98. [PMID: 23641716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Whipples disease is a rare multisystem disease caused by rod-shaped bacteria Tropheryma whipplei. Although it affects all age groups, the typical patient is a middle-aged white man. The clinical signs are very heterogeneous and depend on the stage of the disease. The most common is abdominal manifestation characterized by weight loss, disability, chronic diarrhea and abdominal pain. Untreated Whipples disease is almost always fatal. We describe probably the first published case of undiagnosed Whipples disease with a lethal outcome in Slovakia, occuring in a 33-year old white man with involvement of the gastrointestinal tract, abdominal lymphatic nodes and brain, who died of bronchopneumonia.
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- Daniel Farkaš
- Úrad pre Dahlad nad Zdravatnou Starostlivastou, SlaPA Pracoviska, Kosice.
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