Background: The incidence of sudden death has been increasing steadily all over the worldparticularly in the urban population for the last 5 years. World health organization [WHO] hasdefined sudden death as “Death within 24 hrs from the onset of symptoms”. It can be defined asdeaths that are sudden, unexpected, clinically unexplained, or otherwise obscure even though thereneed to be no unnatural element in their causation. Materials and methods: Complete analysisand review of all autopsy/post-mortem specimens received in the Department of Pathology, KIMS,Hubballi between September 2017 to June 2019 done to find out the cause of death. Results:During the study period, a total of 153 cases of sudden death were received, age ranged from 6months to 72 years, with male preponderance. The cause of death were, 67 cases - cardiac causes[43.7%], 15 cases- respiratory causes [9.8%], 7 cases of sepsis [4.5%], 6 cases of Miliary TB[3.9%], CNS- 5 cases [3.2%], Hepatobiliary [2.6%], Renal- 2 cases [1.3%], Gastrointestinal 2cases [1.3%] Malignancy – 1 case [0.65%], Inconclusive 44 - cases [ 28.7%]. Conclusion: Thisstudy concludes that sudden death can occur at any age with the most common cause being cardiacdiseases and few among these are preventable. Therefore, creating awareness about the risk factorsand prevention of disease progression can reduce the incidence of sudden deaths.
Background: The eye is one of the major sensory organs. The present study aims at a comprehensive study of all the tumours and tumour like conditions of eye and ocular adnexae with their relative incidence in Indian population.
Methods: All incisional and excisional biopsies of eye and its adnexal organs received in our laboratory between April - 2010 to December - 2018 were included in this study.
Result: A total of 350 cases were studied. Among these, lesions constituted are orbital: 37.4%, Conjunctival: 32%, Eyelid: 18.2%, Intraocular: 9.4% and Lacrimal gland: 2.85% of the total cases. Among the orbital lesions, the most common benign tumor was hemangiomas [15.26 %] and malignant tumour was basal cell carcinomas [10%].
In conjunctiva, carcinoma in situ was the most common lesion [51.4%]. Retinoblastoma [66.66%] was the most common in the ocular lesions. Other tumours and tumour like conditions are discussed in the present study.
Conclusion: Early histopathological diagnosis and ancillary diagnostic tests like immunohistochemistry will help to reduce destructive surgeries and the morbidity in terms of vision loss, loss of eyeball and cosmetic factors. Present study aids in knowing the incidence and prevalence of tumor and other lesions seen with orbit, and its adnexa and eyeball.
Foetal and Perinatal Autopsy-A Study Of 100 Cases Autopsy examination of the foetus or neonate was performed after obtaining informed written consent from parents or the guardian explaining the procedure and the utility of the outcome. All autopsies were performed by the pathologist. Each foetus was examined according to a predetermined protocol which included clinical and ultrasound diagnosis, photographs, Multiple X rays, anthropometry, external and internal examination. The thoracic, cervical, abdominal and pelvic organs were removed en bloc and subsequently
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