Autopsy

Post-Mortem Injuries by Pets: An Unseen Reality 🐾

Your pet is a loyal friend, a companion, and a family member. We care for them with love, and they bring us warmth and joy. But what happens when the owner’s life suddenly ends, and there’s no one around to take care of the animal? It’s a question that rarely crosses our minds, but for me, as a forensic expert, it’s become part of everyday reality. Continue in the carousel…

A severe MRSA infection requiring extensive reconstructive surgery!

This patient originally presented with flu-like symptoms and was misdiagnosed. As the week went on, his fever kept climbing and his hand and arm begun to swell up. He soon realized he was not dealing with the flu!

He went to a hand specialist who told him and his wife that he needed to go to a specific hospital immediately, since they were the closest level 1 trauma center. “Don’t stop for gas. Don’t stop for anything. If you don’t think you can’t take him there right now, I’ll get an ambulance.” He then called a hand surgeon to meet me there. The ER was expecting him, and he was immediately admitted and prepped for surgery.

7 surgeries were performed to remove the infected tissue. He then had his hand sown to his stomach for 3 weeks for skin coverage.

After about 18 months of physical therapy, the patient has recovered about 40% of his function in this arm/hand.

Gallstone wedged in the neck of the gallbladder and in the cystic duct. 

Gallstones are small stones, usually made of cholesterol, that form in the gallbladder. Gallstones are thought to develop because of an imbalance in the chemical make-up of bile inside the gallbladder. In most cases the levels of cholesterol in bile become too high and the excess cholesterol forms into stones. Gallstones are very common. It's estimated more than 1 in every 10 adults in the UK has gallstones, although only a minority of people develop symptoms.

Cranial autopsies 💀

Fracture of the frontal bone of the skull as a result of blunt force trauma

Autopsy 18+🫀

Exhumation. Extensive area of fungal colonization after burial for 7 months.

So after death, the human body is not only interesting for insects and larvae.

Someone from the subscribers asked to show what vinegar poisoning looks like. Here you go. 25% acetic acid poisoning. One of the stupidest and most painful ways to commit suicide.

1. Necrosis of the mucosa. A dark staining of the gastric mucosa in the area of prolonged contact with 25% acetic acid is seen on the fold apexes.
2. Coagulation necrosis of the gastric mucosa. In the lower half of the stomach, dark staining of the gastric mucosa in the area of erosions and necrosis of the mucosa was observed in the area of prolonged exposure to acetic acid.
3. Hemorrhages under the endocardium.Nonspecific symptom of unclear origin against the background of acute multiorgan failure in acetic acid poisoning.
4. Swelling of the kidneys. A day after taking acetic acid, acute renal failure with blood in the urine occurred.
5. Hemorrhage of the liver. (liver with good fatty degeneration)
6. Erosions on the mucosa of the esophageal inlet. Acetic acid led to necrosis of the mucosa at the esophageal inlet.

This is how the brain is examined during an autopsy