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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica

On-line version ISSN 2215-5287Print version ISSN 1409-0015

Abstract

GONZALEZ GAITAN, Tatiana. Acute chest syndrome due to sickle cell disease as a cause of sudden death: Case report and literature review. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2024, vol.41, n.1, pp.3-12. ISSN 2215-5287.

Objective:

To correlate the findings of the medical legal autopsy carried out with the updated and available generalities of the pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia.

Materials and methods:

The analysis of the protocol of the medical-legal autopsy carried out, and a bibliographic review, were carried out. A 37-year-old female who apparently suffered from “sciatic nerve pain,” who died in her home after experiencing intense pain located in her back and dyspnea. After the medical-legal autopsy, acute chest syndrome due to sickle cell disease was established as the cause of death.

Conclusions:

Sickle cell anemia must be kept in mind at the time of the medical-legal evaluation as a possible cause of death, for this it is necessary to know the pathophysiology of this disease, and to be able to identify these effects when performing the Medical- Legal Autopsy, for this It is necessary to have all the possible tools to be able to make an accurate diagnosis.

Keywords : Acute Chest Syndrome; Autopsy; Forensic Medicine; Anemia; Sickle Cell..

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