[Identification and investigation of clusters during the COVID-19 pandemic Experiences from the canton of Vaud].

Persons with SARS-CoV2 can be contagious with few or no symptoms. They can infect others in private, during education or work without knowing it. Few so-called super-propagators can thus initiate clusters of infections and chains of transmission.

New formula for cardiothoracic ratio for the diagnosis of cardiomegaly on post-mortem CT.

The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) is considered to be a reliable detector of cardiomegaly on computed tomography for livings, with a threshold of 0.5. Our study aimed to establish an adjusted CTR-based score to predict cardiac hypertrophy at PMCT.

Modern post-mortem imaging: an update on recent developments.

Modern post-mortem investigations use an increasing number of digital imaging methods, which can be collected under the term "post-mortem imaging". Most methods of forensic imaging are from the radiology field and are therefore techniques that show the interior of the body with technologies such as X-ray or magnetic resonance imaging. To digitally image the surface of the body, other techniques are regularly applied, e.

Sudden cardiac death and sarcoidosis of the heart in a young patient.

Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown etiology affecting any organ, microscopically characterized by noncaseating granulomata. Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis has been reported. It might be symptomatic or not and even revealed by sudden death.

22q11 Deletion Syndrome and Urogenital Manifestations: A Clinicopathological Case Report.

Background: Deletion in the chromosomal region 22q11 results from the abnormal development of the third and fourth pharyngeal pouches during embryonic life and presents an expansive phenotype with more than 180 clinical features described that involve every organ and system.

History And Signs: A 23-year-old African woman presented for the first trimester echography, which revealed an isolated anechoic structure suggesting a ureteral dilatation. The suspicion of a malposition of great arteries in the second trimester indicated an amniocentesis leading to a diagnosis of 22q11 deletion.