Unexpected Death due to Massive Nontraumatic Intraabdominal Hemorrhage in association with Liver Cirrhosis.

Kim, Hyoung Joong; Kim, Yu Hoon; Chung, Nak Eun; Seo, Joong Seok

Case Report

Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 2007;31(1):92-94.
Published online May 31, 2007.

Unexpected Death due to Massive Nontraumatic Intraabdominal Hemorrhage in association with Liver Cirrhosis.

Hyoung Joong Kim, Yu Hoon Kim, Nak Eun Chung, Joong Seok Seo

Department of Forensic Medicine, National Institute of Scientific Investigation, Korea.

Abstract

We reports a woman's death caused by massive intraabdominal hemorrhage, who was in chronic alcoholic state with advanced liver cirrhosis and found dead in her room. No macroscopic source for the bleeding was found in her intraabdomen and there was no circumstances of traumatic forces to the individual's body around the death. The presenting unsuspected death could be consistent with the forensic pathological cases described as sudden, unexpected death due to massive nontraumatic intraabdominal hemorrhage in association with liver cirrhosis by DiMaio in 1987.

Key Words: liver cirrhosis, massive intraabdominal hemorrhage, death