1Department of Anatomy, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore.
2Department of Anatomy, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore.
3Department of Anatomy, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
4of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
5Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
6Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
*Corresponding Author: Vinod C Nayak, Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Contact: +91 8121121253 Email: vinod.nayak@manipal.edu
Online published on 18 September, 2020.
Introduction: Anatomically and structurally, stress play an important role in affecting adrenal gland. And the changes are observed exclusively in the patients who have undergone agonal stress (long term stress). In the cases like suicide, road traffic accidents (RTA), burns, sudden death, poison, and post traumatic-stress disorders, the changes are seen exclusively.
Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted in the department of forensic medicine & anatomy of KMC Manipal on 25 adrenal glands of persons who died unexpectedly either from the road traffic accident or suicide and had corroborative evidence for stress within 12–24 hours of death. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the morphology & morphometric changes in adrenal gland due to effect of stress by histological examinations.
Results and Conclusions: Therefore, we conclude that in the mentally depressed patients, in the victims of suicide, and in burns injuries who undergo septicaemia shock the chronic stress leads to adrenal hyperplasia and hypertrophy of the gland which remarkably increases the weight of the gland and significantly increases the cortical length.
Adrenalin Gland, Stress, Morphometry, Histology
