Retrospective evaluation of unexpected sudden deaths in turgut özal medical center department of pathology in malatya between 2004-2005

2004-2005Introduction and Aim: There are so many studies have been done upto now. This study planned to determine; frequency of sudden deaths in forensicautopsies, gender and age variety of sudden deaths, most frequent and othercauses of sudden deaths in Turgut Özal Medical Center during 18 monthsbetween 2004-2005.Material and Method: Cases were evaluated retrospectively. Cases,over 14 year and unknown sudden deaths were included in to the study. Agesand genders were noted behind noteble specifities have in their backraund. HEpreparats, belong cases examineted with Olympus BX 50 microscope. Heart,lung, kidney, pancreas, brain and cerebellum findings were noted.Findings: Sudden deaths were seen frequently in older and male cases.The most frequent cause of sudden death was iscemic heart disease. It wasnoted that non-cardiac reasons was also posible reason for sudden deaths.Results: It can be said that, in natural based sudden deaths, ischemicheart disease is taking head of the list. Sudden death, in healthy people whilethey are doing daily activities, must be elucidated by specialists with history ofevent, eyewitness?s utterance, autopsy data and with post-mortem examinationto clarify the reason. It is showed that outside of iscemic heart disease,respiratory system diseases, non-iscemic cardiac diseases, central nervoussystem diseases and gastrointestinal system diseases are also possible cause ofsudden deaths. Although everything, sometimes the cause of death may not befound.Keywords: Adult, sudden death, autopsy, retrospective analysıs35