Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Patients Differ Strongly in Frequencies and Spectra between Patients with Low CD4+ Cell Counts Examined Postmortem and Compensated Patients Examined Antemortem Irrespective of the HAART Era.

Objective: AIDS-related mortality has changed dramatically with the onset of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which has even allowed compensated HIV-infected patients to withdraw from secondary therapy directed against opportunistic pathogens. However, in recently autopsied HIV-infected patients, we observed that associations with a broad spectrum of pathogens remain, although detailed analyses are lacking. Therefore, we focused on the possible frequency and spectrum shifts in pathogens associated with autopsied HIV-infected patients.

[Ultrastruktural diagnosis of hypertrophic kardiomyopathy with β-aktin mutation in sudden death - case report].

Introduction: Light microscopy and electron microscopy rank among methods to diagnose of cardiomyopathy in forensic medicine, and, recently, the methods of molecular biology.

Methods: Investigation of 27 year old man who collapsed on his way to work. The Rescuers did not succeed resuscitation of vital function.

[3,5-dimethoxyfenol--marker intoxication with Taxus baccata].

Autopsy findings of fatal intoxication with yew (Taxus baccata) are nonspecific. A presence of plant residues in the digestive tract can signalize yew intoxication. If yew decoction is consumed, plant residues are not found.