Sudden death after a mountain bike race.

Presented case study deals with the sudden death of a 47 years old male, shortly after a mountain bike race after reported nausea and chest pain followed by loss of consciousness and resuscitation. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was unsuccessful. An autopsy was enacted due to the sudden death in a seemingly healthy person.

Fatal injury of a skier during school training - case report.

The authors present the case of a fatal accident of a 16-year-old skier who crashed into a tree during a downhill skiing lesson at school. Although the skier was wearing a protective helmet at the time of the accident and his condition did not appear to be too serious immediately after the accident, he later died in hospital as a result of a craniocerebral injury with cerebral contusion and intracranial haemorrhage. His life could not be saved even by immediate neurosurgery, during which fragments of the broken protective helmet were removed from his cranial cavity.

Long-term mortality after retinal artery occlusion - a single centre study.

Introduction And Objective: Retinal artery occlusion (RAO) is an ophthalmic and systemic emergency requiring urgent diagnosis and treatment. Data regarding mortality in this group, especially in the European population, are modest. The aim of this study is to assess all-cause mortality in post-RAO patients.

Morphological Peculiarities of the Pelvic Autonomic Nervous System and Their Impact on Clinical Interventions in the Lesser Pelvic Region.

: The aim of the work is to define the morphological peculiarities of the pelvic autonomic nervous system (ANS) and their importance in the clinical and surgical interventions in the lesser pelvis. : Anatomical variations in the formation of the pelvic ANS were observed in 20 cadavers. The study included 17 men (85%), aged 18 to 84, and 3 women, aged 27 to 86.

A Comparative Study of Intravital CT and Autopsy Findings in Fatal Traumatic Injuries.

Traumatic injuries are one of the severe health problems of our time. In the 21st Century, approximately 4.5 million people worldwide die each year due to trauma.

Retinal Artery Occlusion and Its Impact on the Incidence of Stroke, Myocardial Infarction, and All-Cause Mortality during 12-Year Follow-Up.

The aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence of ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction, and all-cause mortality in patients with retinal artery occlusion (RAO). This single-center retrospective study included 139 patients diagnosed with RAO between 2009 and 2020. The control group included 139 age- and sex-matched patients without RAO who underwent cataract surgery.

The Most Relevant Factors Affecting the Perioperative Death Rate in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and COVID-19, Based on Annual Follow-Up in the ORPKI Registry.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is significantly affecting the functioning of the entire healthcare system. The disease itself may be associated with thromboembolic complications. The purpose of this study is to compare patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and patients with ACS who were diagnosed with COVID-19 in terms of their clinical profile, management, treatment complications, and prognosis.

Occurrence of periadrenal brown adipose tissue in adult Slovak population.

Objectives: The brown adipose tissue is distributed only in specific locations of the mammalian body. Evidence has been presented that the brown fat occurs in human foetuses and new-borns. At later stages of life, most brown fat cells disappear and only persist in the perirenal and periaortic adipose tissue.

Extraordinary features of the intraspinal extradural and intradural nerve root courses.

Objectives: Very few studies have reported occasional intradural and extradural communications between adjacent nerve roots. These studies mostly focus on lumbosacral regions followed by cervical regions, and rarely in the thoracic region.

Design: The aim of this work is to point out some extraordinary extradural and intradural features of the intraspinal nerve root courses and their possible participation in radiculopathy.

Sudden and unexpected death due to intracranial sellar extramedullary plasmacytoma.

The incidence of sudden death caused by undiagnosed primary intracranial neoplasm in young adults is extremely low. The aim of the work is to present a case report of the sudden death of a 24-year-old woman. The autopsy has revealed enlargement of sella turcica with an intrasellar tumorous mass extending into the adjacent basal parts of the brain.

Long-term self-inflicted craniocerebral penetrating injury with a fatal outcome.

A case of long-term continual self-inflicted penetrating craniocerebral injury to a 59-year-old man with a fatal outcome is reported. The man suffered from paranoid psychosis and alcohol dependence. Over five months, he continually scalped the skin and subcutaneous tissue of his head with a knife until he perforated the skull and dura mater and injured his brain.

Accidental fatal craniocerebral injury caused by broken chain of sawing tool.

The case of an accidental fatal penetrating craniocerebral injury to a 26-year-old man at work when cutting wood is reported. There was used an angle grinder with an accessory for cutting similar to a chainsaw. The injury was caused by a fragment of the broken chain.

[Parallel investigations of blood and alveolar air in the diagnosis of lethal carbon monoxide poisoning].

Carbon monoxide poisonings are the most frequent among fatal gas and volatile substances intoxications. The authors present diagnostic options of fatal carbon monoxide poisoning by parallel blood investigations for the content of karbonylhaemoglobin and determining of the concentration of carbon monoxide in the alveolar air. The analysis of 160 cases of lethal poisonings with carbon monoxide over a period of 20 years was carried out.

[Addictive substances in fatal cases of fall/jump from height].

The aim of the study is to analyse causes of fatal cases of falls from height focusing on the occurrence of addictive substances. The authors performed a retrospective analysis of cases dealing with falls/jumps autopsied at the Institutes of Forensic Medicine in Bratislava in the years 2005-2014 accounting for a catchment area with approximately 1.2 m population.

[Post mortem investigation of alveolar air in forensic practice].

Exhaled air from biological materials is used for the purpose of toxicologico-chemical analysis particularly in detecting of alcohol influence in traffic or within a working process. Similarly, still a more and more actual requirement seems to be a necessity to analyse alveolar air from necroptic material. This necessity is emphasised not only by the fact, that inhalant intoxications in the form of poisoning represent their substantial part, but also a demand to evidence exactly a noxious agent both specifically and also in at least two materials.

[Confrontation of knowledge on alcohol concentration in blood and in exhaled air].

The authors of the paper give a brief historical overview of the development of experimental alcohology in the former Czechoslovakia. Enhanced attention is paid to tests of work quality control of toxicological laboratories. Information on results of control tests of blood samples using the method of gas chromatography in Slovakia and within a world-wide study "Eurotox 1990" is presented.

Medico-legal analysis of a case of mass shooting.

Despite the existence of organised crime in Slovakia, no case has ever been monitored in which one individual used a firearm against several people, as happens in the U.S. or in Western Europe.

Evaluation of childhood medicolegal autopsies in Bratislava and Trnava regions, Slovakia.

Introduction: Studies dealing with analysing cases of violent, sudden and unexpected deaths in childhood are very important, as these deaths can be prevented to a high percentage. The aim of this study is to evaluate the results of analysis of cases involving childhood deaths undergoing autopsy at Bratislava medico-legal workplaces within the catchment area of Bratislava and Trnava regions.

Patients And Methods: There was performed a retrospective analysis of autopsy protocols of death cases in childhood (from 0 to 14 years) at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the School of Medicine Comenius University and Department of Forensic Medicine of Health Care Surveillance Authority in Bratislava in the period 1999-2008.

Psychoactive substances related to the deaths.

The study included all deceased who died in relation to psychoactive substances abuse in the regions of Bratislava and Trnava city districts within a two-year period of the years 2007-2008. All the cases were autopsied by the standard method completed with toxicological analyses. There were reported total 84 fatalities related to psychoactive substances.