AIM: During forensic-medical autopsies experts must very often assess degree and the role of acute alcohol intoxications in mechanisms of death. This becomes more actual in the cases of sudden death from different diseases especially cardiac, brain and liver origin, mechanical injuries, mechanical asphyxia etc.
METHOD: This study aims to show that blood concentration of alcohol must not be only criteria during assessment of severity of intoxications and their influence on patogenesis. Epidemiological screening of 320 medico-legal reports assesses the role of sex, age, ethnicity and other peculiarities.
RESULTS: Special histochemical investigations of ethanol oxidizing enzymes were also conducted on materials taken from 167 autopsies.
CONCLUSION: Study suggests that morpho-functional histochemical tests must be entered in the list of methods of postmortem diagnostics during autopsies of cases with the background of ethanol poisoning, especially for differential diagnosis of acute alcohol intoxication, alcohol cardiomyopathy and ischemic heart disease.
Key words: Forensic medical diagnosis; Forensic pathology; Acute alcoholic intoxications; Differential diagnosis; Postmortem diagnosis Article Language: Turkish English
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