Citation

Thierauf A, Dettmeyer R, Wollersen H, Madea B. Forensic Sci. Int. 2007; 173(2-3): 178-181.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.01.001

PMID

17317059

Abstract

Singular coronary arteries are a rare feature appearing in approximately 0.05% of the population. The clinical relevance of those anomalies varies a lot. The wide range of descriptions reaches from asymptomatic cases to sudden cardiac death. This will be discussed in a case report concerning a 31-year-old woman who was found dead in her apartment. Due to drugs that were found next to her, a suicide was assumed. The autopsy yielded an aplastic right coronary artery and a left coronary artery with an anomalous origin of the circumflex branch as well as a myocardial scar. The autopsy findings and the results of the toxicological examinations are presented and discussed in view of the cause of death.

Language: en

Keywords

Adult; Analgesics, Opioid; Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic; Central Nervous System Depressants; Coronary Vessel Anomalies; Female; Forensic Pathology; Humans; Myocardium; Pyrethrins; Tilidine; Trimipramine