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  [2018] 6. Youn Shin Kim, Ji Hye Park
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  Publication; issue :  2018 Year  42 Vol  4 iss  159 p
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An Experience of Judicial Autopsy for a Death by Muscular Dystrophy: An Autopsy Case

Korean J Leg Med 2018;42:159-163

Department of Forensic Medicine, Chosun University School of Medicine, Gwangju, Korea, Forensic Medicine Division, National Forensic Service Gwangju Institute, Jangseong, Korea

E-mail: ysk007fm@hotmail.com

Progressive muscular dystrophy (PMD) is a primary muscle disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting, which is inherited by an X-linked recessive pattern and occurs mainly in males. There are several types of muscular dystrophies classified according to the distribution of predominant muscle weakness including Duchenne and Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, facioscapulohumeral, oculopharyngeal, and limb-girdle type. Clinical manifestations of PMD are clumsy, unsteady gait, pneumonia, heart failure, pulmonary edema, hydropericardium, hydrothorax, aspiration, syncopal attacks, and sudden cardiac death. The deceased was a 34-year-old man, and the onset of the first clinical symptom, gait disturbance, was in his late teens. His elder brother had the same disease and experienced brain death after a head trauma and died after mechanical ventilation was discontinued. After an autopsy, we found contracture of the joints, pseudohypertrophy of the calf, wasting and fat replacement of the thigh muscle, pericardial effusion (80 mL), fibrosis and fat replacement of the cardiac ventricular wall, pulmonary edema, and froth in the bronchus. The cause of death was heart failure and dyspnea due to muscular dystrophy. There was no sign or suspicion of foul play in his death.

Key Words: Muscular dystrophies; Gait disturbance; Autopsy



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