Concordance between MITS and conventional autopsies for pathological and virological diagnoses.

In pandemics or to further study highly contagious infectious diseases, new strategies are needed for the collection of post-mortem tissue samples to identify the pathogen as well as its morphological impact. In this study, an ultrasound-guided minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) protocol was developed and validated for post-mortem use. The histological and microbiological qualities of post-mortem specimens were evaluated and compared between MITS and conventional autopsy (CA) in a series of COVID-19 deaths.

Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling via Post Mortem Ultrasound: A Feasible Tool (Not Only) in Infectious Diseases-A Case Report.

In the past years the number of hospital autopsies have declined steadily, becoming almost excluded from medical training. Medicolegal (forensic) autopsies account for almost all autopsies, whereas hospital autopsies are becoming increasingly rare. Minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) using post mortem ultrasound offers the opportunity to increase the number of post mortem examinations in a clinical and even forensic context.

The Magnitude of Medicolegal Postmortem That Turned Out to Be Natural Deaths at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital: A 3-Year Study.

Background: The periodic determination of the degree to which coroner's postmortems done for medicolegal purpose turns out to be natural death is desirable because of its usefulness to health administrators in making policies that may ultimately help in focusing on the prevention/management of the causes of natural death at that particular point in time.

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the causes of natural death by a retrospective analysis of coroner's postmortem cases carried out on patients ages 19 years and above who died from natural causes.

Materials And Methods: A 3-year period, retrospective postmortem study was carried out at the Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital on 530 medicolegal postmortem cases ages 19 and above who died from natural causes.