From: Review of clinical non-medico-legal autopsy: a descriptive study in 747 patients
Diagnosis | No data | Obit fetus | < 1 months | 1–12 months | 1–2 years | 2–17 years | 18–40 years | 41–64 years | > 65 years | Total (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acute myocardial infarction | 3 (1)* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 (8)* | 92 (56)* | 48 (22)* | 155 (20.74) |
Other entities (bronchoaspiration, sepsis secondary to urinary infections, gastrointestinal infections, and rare conditions) | 2 | 66 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 126 (16.86) |
Bacterial pneumonia and associated respiratory illnesses | 3 | 6 | 21 | 18 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 30 | 11 | 122 (16.33) |
Deaths related with other cardiovascular diseases (aortic dissection, aortic aneurism) | 2 (1)* | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14 (3)* | 44 (31)* | 16 (8)* | 84 (11.24) |
Deaths related with congenital malformations | 5 | 54 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 (9.63) |
Pulmonary thromboembolism | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 30 | 14 | 57 (7.63) |
Deaths related with cerebral disorders (stroke, epilepsy, meningitis) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 53 (7.09) |
Deaths related with respiratory infections non bacterial | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 24 (3.21) |
Deaths related with placental abnormalities | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 (2.54) |
Deaths related with prematurity | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 (2.40) |
Deaths related with neoplasias | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 (2.14) |
Deaths related with metabolic disorders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.13) |
Total | 17 | 149 | 54 | 24 | 4 | 31 | 100 | 243 | 125 | 747 |