1Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Aurobindo Medical College & PGI, Indore
2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh
3Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sukhsagar Medical College, Jabalpur
4Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Index Medical College, Indore
5Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Index Medical College, Indore
*Email: pradeep_sus1074@yahoo.com
Online published on 19 July, 2017.
A 16 year old healthy young student suddenly fell down while playing football on school ground at about 4 pm and was suddenly rushed to hospital where he was declared ‘brought in dead ’by doctors. The case was brought to mortuary of Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, and next day for medicolegal autopsy where diagnosis of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was made. HCM is an inheritable autosomal dominant disease of heart muscle, characterized by a small left ventricular cavity and marked hypertrophy of myocardium with myofibril disarray. It has traditionally been considered a major cause of sudden death in physically active young person. The various aspects of the case are discussed in detail in this paper.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Sudden death
