Postmortem diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and its complications.

Details

Ressource 1Download: 26088843_BIB_57DF967739F4.pdf (180.61 [Ko])
State: Public
Version: Final published version
Serval ID
serval:BIB_57DF967739F4
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Postmortem diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and its complications.
Journal
Croatian Medical Journal
Author(s)
Palmiere C.
ISSN
1332-8166 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0353-9504
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
56
Number
3
Pages
181-193
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Diabetes mellitus has become a major cause of death worldwide and diabetic ketoacidosis is the most common cause of death in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Acute complications of diabetes mellitus as causes of death may be difficult to diagnose due to missing characteristic macroscopic and microscopic findings. Biochemical analyses, including vitreous glucose, blood (or alternative specimen) beta-hydroxybutyrate, and blood glycated hemoglobin determination, may complement postmortem investigations and provide useful information for determining the cause of death even in corpses with advanced decompositional changes. In this article, we performed a review of the literature pertaining to the diagnostic performance of classical and novel biochemical parameters that may be used in the forensic casework to identify disorders in glucose metabolism. We also present a review focusing on the usefulness of traditional and alternative specimens that can be sampled and subsequently analyzed to diagnose acute complications of diabetes mellitus as causes of death.
Pubmed
Web of science
Create date
24/06/2015 13:29
Last modification date
20/08/2019 14:11
Usage data