BARRANCO , R

Background. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the main causes of death worldwide. The analysis of such cases is a complex and delicate task, which is invariably carried out by the forensic pathologist.Methods. We conducted a retrospective analysis of cases of SCD identified among cases of sudden death on the basis of complete autopsy study...

The authors describe a fatal case of gastric perforation secondary to an ulcerated metastasis in a woman with undiagnosed breast cancer. The 48-year-old woman, with no significant medical history, presented with weight loss, persistent dyspepsia and pain in the epigastric and mesogastric region. She was treated by her primary care physician...

Pulmonary artery dissection (PAD) and rupture presenting as sudden death, albeit quite rare, have on occasion been reported.In particular, cases of idiopathic spontaneous rupture of the pulmonary artery, i.e. from vessel tear not preceded by predisposing pathology or trauma, are exceedingly rare in the literature.We report on the case of a...

The growing use of technologies makes it easy for children and young people to access or produce offensive content, giving rise to a new form of bullying: cyberbullying. Several individual and environmental protection and risk factors are involved with cyberbullying victimization. The present study aims to provide some empirical data that can...

Homicide-suicide is an act in which the murder of a victim is followed by the suicide of the perpetrator usually within a week. Despite being a rare event compared to committing murder alone and scarcely studied and reported in literature, homicide-suicides have attracted major media attention. Between 2007 and 2018 in the province of Genoa, 11...