Autoerotic death is an uncommon cause of death with higher prevalence in middle aged Caucasian people, usually but not always caused by accidental self-hanging. The main cause for it is a sexual compulsion of the practitioners, who seek controlled hypoxia as a mean to improve their sexual experience. In order to achieve this goal they try different methods to decrease their brain oxygenation: mechanical asphyxia, electrocution, chemical abuse, etc. Even though they usually take preventive measures sometimes these are not functioning properly making them loose their consciousness and finally die. This article presents a typical case of self-hanging associated with masochistic behavior.
Morbid obesity has become a very common problem worldwide, causing severe health-related consequences including cardiovascular or metabolic diseases, arthritis, sleep apnea, or an increased risk of cancer. Bariatric surgery was shown to be the only way to achieve sustainable weight loss and to decrease the frequency and severity of metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities. The purpose of this article is to present a case of bariatric surgery complicated with lesion of the aorta with a lethal outcome.
Suicide is an increasing public health problem all around the globe, because of the loss of lives with devastating effects on those left behind. The literature review shows that there are a lot of risk factors associated with suicide, but the psychiatric pathology or psychiatric imbalance at a certain critical moment in the individual's life seems to play a major role. This article presents four suicide cases autopsied at the National Institute of Legal Medicine-Bucharest in which the common characteristic is the atypical manner and method of commiting suicide: two young men jumping from a high building after chaining themselves together, a self poisoning in a woman by an improvised intravenous line and a man with self inflicted thoracic perforating wound using a mechanical drill. The risk factors associated with these suicides, the preexisting or presumed psychiatric pathology, as well as drug abuse association are reviewed.
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