Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

An Autopsy Record Study of Rheumatic Heart Disease

  • Author:
  • N S Kamakeri1, Sunilkumar S Biradar2,, M Smitha3, Mallikarjun K Biradar4, Lohit Kumar5
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 114 to 117

1Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi

2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi

3Tutor, Department of Anatomy, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi

4Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Koppala Institute of Medical Sciences, Koppala

5Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Shivamogga Institute of Medical Sciences, Shivamogga

Abstract

Rheumatic heart disease is becoming rare in recent years because of early detection and medical intervention and sudden deaths becomes still rarer. Twenty Sudden deaths have occurred in 20 years due to rheumatic heart disease in our study.

Keywords

Rheumatic, heart disease, sudden death