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A Study of Death Due to Poisoning in Barpeta, Assam
Abstract: Suicide is a complex phenomenon. Depression, psychological stress and schizophrenic depression were the factors that influence suicide. Suicide is one of the major burdens nowadays. Fifteen suicides took place every one hour during the year 2014. Poisoning is the second most common method of suicide adopted for suicide after hanging. In this study, all the cases of suspected poisoning brought for autopsy in the department of forensic medicine, Fakhruddin Ali …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Immunology · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 1–4 Read article
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A Study of Hanging Cases in Barpeta District
Abstract: Hanging is a violent form of asphyxial death. It is widely accepted as a method of suicide due to its relative painless and rapid death. The rate of suicidal hanging cases is increasing day by day. The objective of study is to find out its demographic pattern, ligature material commonly used by the victims, post-mortem findings and to identify the causative factors. In this study of hanging cases brought for …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Immunology · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 13–16 Read article
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Percentage Changes According to Pathological Finding of Senile Calcification in Fibrous Skeleton of the Heart
Abstract: Fibrous skeleton of the heart consists of aortic valve annulus (AVA), pulmonary valve annulus (PVA), tricuspid valve annulus (TVA), bicuspid valve annulus (BVA) and fibrous trigone of right and left heart (RFT and LFT), and some senile changes like calcinosis begin to develop as growing old. The senile calcification in the fibrous skeleton of the heart leads to several complications such as valve disorders and block of conduction. We studied …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Medicine · Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 29–34 Read article
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Biochemical Analysis of Cadaveric Synovial Fluid for Determination of Death Interval
Abstract: Estimation of post-mortem interval or time since a death has always remained an important requirement in medico-legal autopsies. Since the 1850s, scientists have been working on different methods to determine post-mortem interval but none of the methods is either or collectively reliable in measuring exact death interval because of environmental factors. Hence in this study, synovial fluid sodium concentration was investigated to predict post-mortem interval. Total 100 samples of the …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Toxicology · Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 1–6 Read article