Comparison of Medical Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in China and Abroad.

Medical disputes are one of the common problems concerned by the whole world. All countries and regions have established their own medical dispute resolution mechanisms, in accordance with their own national conditions. Medical dispute identification opinions, as one of the important bases for identifying the responsibilities of both doctors and patients, play a pivotal role in the process of dispute settlement.

Sudden Death From Ruptured Intracranial Vascular Malformations During Mechanical Asphyxia: A Domestic Violence Case Report.

Smothering and manual strangulation are not uncommon in domestic violence against women; however, no report on the combination of mechanical asphyxia and intracranial vascular malformations has been previously published. We report a middle-aged woman who was smothered and manually strangled by her husband and subsequently died from subarachnoid hemorrhage due to ruptured intracranial vascular malformations, rather than direct mechanical asphyxiation. Smothering and manual strangulation are considered provocative conditions for rupture and contributory causes of death.

[Relationship between the increase of fibrous and fatty in atrioventricular node and narrowing of the atrioventricular node artery].

Objective: To explore relationship between increase of fibrous and fatty in atrioventricular node (AVN) and narrowing of the AVN artery. To analyze the cause of pathological fibrosis and fatty infiltration in AVN.

Methods: One hundred and nineteen cases of sudden cardiac death determined by autopsy were selected and the histological sections were examined with Image-pro plus software to calculate the AVN area, AVN artery inside-diameter, AVN artery lumen area(LA) , AVN artery perimeter area(PA), fibrous area and fatty area.

[Traffic accidents associated with emotional stress after divorce].

In recent years, the traffic accidents increased gradually, especially those caused by the drivers daily emotional abnormality and in which the drivers were liable. This article reviewed the traffic accidents caused by divorced driver's emotional abnormality, illustrated the features of those accidents from the gender, age, occupation and mileage of drivers. It was considered that the major cause of those accidents was excessive drinking due to drivers' emotional stress.

[A forensic pathological study of eighty-two cases of adrenal hemorrhage].

Objective: To analyze the relationship between adrenal hemorrhage and the cause of death, age and gender.

Methods: Eighty-two cases of adrenal hemorrhage were statistically analyzed.

Results: Adrenal hemorrhage occurred mostly in cases of sudden death, infection, trauma and asphyxia.

[The application of cerebral angiography in the forensic postmortem examination].

As a "Gold Standard" in clinical diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease, cerebral angiography also plays an important role in forensic postmortem examination. The key roles of identifying the site of cerebrovascular disease and the cause of death as well as providing guidance for autopsy and postmortem sampling and the broad future application of cerebral angiography in forensic practice are reviewed.

[The prospect of application of toxicogenetics/pharmcogenetics theory and methods in forensic practice].

Individual response to drugs, toxicants, environmental chemicals and allergens varies with genotype. Some respond well to these substances without significant consequences, while others may respond strongly with severe consequences and even death. Toxicogenetics and toxicogenomics as well as pharmacogenetics explain the genetic basis for the variations of individual response to toxicants by sequencing the human genome and large-scale identification of genome polymorphism.

[Retinal examination with ophthalmic endoscopy in forensic autopsy].

Autopsy by forensic pathologist is a main mean currently to determine the cause of sudden unexpected death. Retinal examination is important but seldom performed during a forensic autopsy for various reasons. The value of retina examination has not been recognized.

[The application of radiological imaging in the forensic pathology about cervical part].

Multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are useful to analyze cervical injury. Especially in injury of skeleton and soft tissue, it has equal value with conventional autopsy. Even they can reparation some shortcoming consisted in the cervical part autopsy.

[The clinical forensic medicine identification on pseudoseizures after head trauma].

Two pseudoseizures after head trauma are reported. We summarize the clinical manifestation of pseudoseizures, and identify difference of pseudoseizures and Seizures after head trauma. The forensic identification of pseudoseizures after head trauma should base on the extend and position of cerebral trauma, sequelae focus in cerebral, and the clinical manifestation.

[The role of urotensin II in airway remodeling of asthma].

Objective: To observe the change of urotensin II (U-II) expression in airways of rat asthmatic models, and of patients with asthma, and therefore to investigate the role of U-II in the pathogenesis of asthma and airway remodeling.

Methods: Twenty Wistar rats were divided into a control group (10 rats) and an asthmatic group (10 rats). The animal model of asthma was established by ovalbumin intraperitoneal injection and aerosolization.