Publications by authors named "J Banner"
Diagnosing drowning as a cause of death remains complex in forensic pathology, demanding integration of autopsy findings, contextual evidence, and case-specific variables. This study systematically reviews literature on lung weights in adult drowning cases, analyzing data from 20 studies to evaluate lung weight as an evidentiary factor in the diagnosis of drowning deaths. Additionally, this study seeks to examine the impact of covariates such as water salinity (freshwater vs.
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- The study analyzes sudden cardiac death (SCD) trends in young people (1-35 years) in Denmark from 2000 to 2019, finding a significant overall decline in SCD incidence, decreasing by 3.31% annually.
- It highlights that while witnessed SCD rates dropped significantly, unwitnessed cases remained stable, leading to a 79% increase in the proportion of unwitnessed SCDs.
- Additionally, survival rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improved from 3.9% to 28% primarily due to more bystander CPR and defibrillator use.
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- - Sudden cardiac death can be the first sign of underlying heart disease, making accurate postmortem diagnoses important for genetic testing and informing relatives about hereditary risks.
- - Diagnosing arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy after death is difficult due to variable structural heart changes and a lack of clinical data, but postmortem analyses can leverage the available tissue for new insights.
- - An innovative automated method developed to analyze heart tissue can help quantify structural changes and may enable the establishment of new diagnostic criteria for cardiac diseases after death, offering a useful template for future research.
The cytochrome P450 (CYP) family of enzymes plays a central role in the metabolism of many drugs. CYP genes are highly polymorphic, which is known to affect protein levels, but for some low frequent CYP genotypes the correlation between genotype and CYP protein expression is less established. In this study, we determined the and genotypes of 250 Danish individuals included in a postmortem study.
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