C Torres, B Martinez Jarreta, R Alegret, J P Hernandez del Rincón, M Falcon, M Gómez Zapata, M D Pérez-Cárceles, E Osuna, A Luna
UNLABELLED: In the present work, we have compared the behaviour of some commonly used markers for the immunohistochemical diagnosis of cardiac suffering (myoglobin, myosin, troponin I), with the modifications of the ionic quotients (K(+)/Na(+), Ca(2+)/Mg(2+) and Ca(2+)/Zn(2+)) that are observed in the interventricular partition in different causes of death. MATERIALS AND METHOD: we have studied a total of 50 hearts coming from autopsies carried out in the Legal Medicine Institute of Murcia (Spain) deceased 21 by natural cardiac deaths, 9 by mechanical asphyxias, 5 by politraumatism, 5 cardiac ruptures and 10 by craneoencephalic trauma...
April 2009: Legal Medicine