The Study of Pathology and Causes of Death in Infants (Less than 1 Year of Age) Referred to Forensic Pathology Laboratory of Kermanshah in 1397

In 1397, about 8.8 percent of referral cases to the pathology lab of legal medicine center of Kermanshah were infants less than 1 year of age. Pathologic examination of infants could assist the physicians to explain the cause of death. This study aims to analyze the pathologic findings and causes of death in infants.Method: The pathologic reports of infants referred to forensic pathology laboratory of Kermanshah were collected and some data such as age, gender, the path of delivery to laboratory and type of pathologic findings of different organs were extracted and analyzed by the SPSS software. Results: Among the 418 cases referred to forensic pathology laboratory, 37 cases were infants less than 1 year of age. About 67.5 % of them died at the first day after birth. About 70.2% and 29.8 % of the infants were male and female, respectively. About 8% of them died at home while about 92% were referred from hospitals. The pathologic results indicated that about 35.1 % of the infants had pneumonia, 38% had edema and the rate of liver hematopoiesis, hepatitis, lung bleeding, were 8.1%, 5.4%, 13.5%, respectively. Furthermore, the rate of each steatosis, myocarditis, aspiration, acute tubular necrosis of kidney, and brain bleeding in the infants was equal to 2.7%. The reported causes of death were pulmonary infection (45.9%), Neonatal respiratory failure (35.1%), pulmonary hemorrhage (8.1%), myocarditis (2.7%), neonatal jaundice (2.7%), acute gastroenteritis (2.7%) and poisoning with morphine (2.7%).Conclusion: The reported causes of death of infants are in consistent with the results of pathological explanation and it highlights the importance of pathology in Interpretation of the cause of death.

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Pathologic report ، Dead infants ، Cause of death