Cardiac rupture during acute myocardial infarction : Autopsy study (2004-2020).

Introduction: Cardiac rupture is a rare but critical complication of myocardial infarction with an incidence of 1 to 3% of cases. We aimed in this autopsy study to analyze the anatomical, epidemiological, cardiac, and coronary profiles of cardiac rupture in the Monastir region.

Methods: We conducted a descriptive study with retrospective data collection of all cases of myocardial infarction complicated by a cardiac rupture over seventeen years (2004-2020).

A missed psoas abscess diagnosis: A forensic case report.

Psoas abscess is a rare pathology that usually presents with non-specific signs and rare clinical features. These characteristics can delay the diagnosis leading to complications and death. We report a forensic autopsy case of a 65-year-old male, alcoholic, smoker, with a history of hypertension, and urinary infection, who presented to the emergency room for anorexia and consciousness disorder.

Medico-legal aspects related to Telemedicine in Tunisia in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.

Telemedicine has become a privileged mode of medical practice providing medical care while reducing the transmission of Covid-19 among patients, families, and clinicians. The law established in 2018 settled a legal framework for telemedicine in Tunisia. However, thelatterremains not sufficient in itself, as legal issues remain especially delimiting the precise conditions for this exercise and to expose the limits of responsibility of each party involved among its organizers, its health service providers, and its users.

Sudden death in the young adult: a Tunisian autopsy-based series.

Background: We aim to study the profile, and pathological characteristics of sudden death in young in purpose of recommendations for prevention.

Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study using autopsy data from the Department of Forensic Medicine of Monastir (Tunisia). A review of all autopsies performed for 28 years was done (August 1990 to December 2018).

Tracheal agenesis clinical presentation in a preterm infant: Prenatal MRI difficulties and autopsy findings.

We describe, the clinical presentation of a rare case of Tracheal Agenesis in a preterm infant and we highlight magnetic imaging resonance (MRI) and autopsy findings to better characterize this anomaly. A 30-year-old female presented for acute polyhydramnios at 30 weeks gestation of a male foetus. Prenatal MRI was performed and excluded this diagnosis.

Sudden death and hydatid cyst: A medicolegal study.

The discovery of a hydatid cyst at autopsy poses the problem of its involvement in the mechanism of death. The aim of this study is to analyse the epidemiological and etiopathogenic characteristics of death attributed to hydatid disease, to discuss the mechanism of death and to propose preventive measures. This is a retrospective descriptive study of 26 cases of death with hydatid cyst autopsic discovered, collected at the forensic department of Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital of Monastir (Tunisia) over a period of 27 years (from 1990 until 2017).

Age estimation at death by the study of chest plate radiographs: establishing a Tunisian male score.

We aim to establish a Tunisian score for age estimation through the study of chest plate's radiographs of a Tunisian male sample. We have focused on the study of 128 chest plate radiographs of Tunisian male individuals. We have established a score of eight criteria.