Cardiac Enlargement in a Medicolegal Autopsy Setting
Torfinn Beer,
Anders Eriksson,
Carl Johan Wingren
Abstract:A key element for diagnosing cardiac enlargement in an autopsy setting is relevant heart weight references. However, most available references are to a large extent not representative of a medicolegal autopsy population, implying that reference weights are likely lower than those in the relevant population.
To establish more applicable heart weight references in a medicolegal autopsy population, we designed a heart weight model that accounts for undiagnosed cardiac enlargement using data from 11,897 … Show more
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