Sexual violence against women in southern Tunisia: Epidemiology and risk factors.

Introduction: Sexual violence (SV) against women represents a public health problem. Despite, the promulgation of the new Act of 2017-58, SV remains frequent in Tunisia. In this paper, we propose to determine the socio-demographic characteristics of women victims of SV and to identify risk factors related to serious SV.

Managing mass disasters linked to the sinking of illegal migrant boats: experiences of the Sfax forensic medicine service.

Background: The sinking of illegal migrant boats has been unpredictable. It has resulted in mass disasters that cause deaths and attracts huge media attention, thus making it a medico-social emergency.

Aims: This paper reports activities of the forensic medicine service in Sfax, Tunisia and describes the forensic management of mass disasters related to the sinking of illegal migrant boats as well as the main challenges.

Patterns of homicide in Sfax, Tunisia: A 9-year cohort study (2011-2019).

Introduction: In Tunisia, since the January 2011 revolution, there has been considerable media interest in violence, particularly homicides. A popular perspective is, aside from any politically motivated killings, of a rise in homicides from year to year. In the absence of Tunisian national homicide statistics, a more accurate picture may be obtainable from area pathologist records.

[Medico-legal issues of the practice of ritual circumcision by nurses in Tunisia].

Circumcision is the most performed surgical procedure in the world. This removal of the foreskin answers most often to an obligatory ritual practice in the Jewish and Muslim religions. In Tunisia, this act, formerly practiced by customary circumcisers, is mainly performed by nurses.

Professional accountability in a sternal bone marrow aspiration: a forensic case report.

An aortic injury with concomitant pericardial tamponade caused by sternal bone marrow aspiration is rare. We report a case of fatal sternal bone marrow aspiration performed to a 73 year old man for the purpose of confirming the diagnosis of multiple myeloma. This puncture was followed by an injury in the aorta causing a pericardial tamponade and the death of the patient immediately after the aspiration.

Criminal medical liability in the context of Covid-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 infection causes to medical community many difficulties worldwide. In addition to its therapeutic problems, it can generate situations with high medico-legal risk to doctor who can see his criminal medical liability engaged. In fact, in Tunisia, this new infection imposes many specific legal obligations.

The Causality Nexus Between the Tako-tsubo Syndrome and an Assault: A Forensic Case Report.

"Tako-tsubo" cardiomyopathy, also known as "broken heart syndrome," is one of the rarest types of stress-induced cardiomyopathy. It frequently mimics acute coronary syndrome, characterized by transient left ventricular dysfunction, electrocardiographic changes, and release of myocardial enzymes. After treatment, the patients are cured in most cases without sequelae.