Postmortem Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction in Sudden Death

Serum cardiac troponin (cTnI) and creatinine kinase-MB (CK-MB) levels are now widely used in the diagnosis of myocardial infarct (MI) and injury in living patients, but their utility in postmortem diagnosis has not been established. Determination the specificity of the cTnI and CK-MB assay by using peripheral and pericardial blood samples compared with microscopic cardiac pathology for diagnosis of myocardial infarction in sudden deaths, and to find out whether it is practical and significant enough to estimate post-mortem interval by analyzing quantitatively the pericardial enzyme activity changes.

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Dr. Hawree is a specialist of Forensic at the Medico legal institute of Erbil. He received his MBChB from Hawler Medical University and his MSc. from Hawler Medical University in 2014. he worked on mass graves on about eight hundred cases for three years and till now in medico legal institute. His research interest is forensic medicine.