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Results: Epilepsy and intracranial hemorrhage have been found to be the two main causes of sudden and unexplained deaths in adults due to intracranial pathologies. Intracranial neoplasms are not among the two main causes of SD, as they are usually discovered before fatality, so their rate of SD is not so extensive.
Sudden death owing to non-traumatic intracranial haemorrhage. Sudden death may occur as a result of rapid bleeding into any one or more of the intracranial compartments—extradural, subdural, subarachnoid, or intraventricular spaces—or into brain substance. The causes vary depending upon age and anatomical location of the haemorrhage.
- M Black, D I Graham
- 2002
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Jul 9, 2021 · 2. Causes of Sudden Death. The most prevalent cause of death in the case of SD is related to cardiovascular diseases; nevertheless, when a subject suddenly dies, and the pathologist after the post-mortem examination is not able to identify abnormalities of the cardiac anatomy, a variety of conduction abnormalities without morphological evidence visible at autopsy may be suspected.
- Francesco Sessa, Massimiliano Esposito, Giovanni Messina, Giulio Di Mizio, Nunzio Di Nunno, Monica S...
- 10.3390/healthcare9070870
- 2021
- Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Jul; 9(7): 870.
Dec 10, 2021 · The definition of sudden cardiac death is most commonly taken to mean death within 1 hour of the onset of symptoms (ICD-10 code I46.1). Still other authors may take “sudden” death to be synonymous with “instantaneous” death and, in fact, an ICD-10 code for instantaneous death exists (ICD-10 code R96.0).
Feb 13, 2023 · Results: Epilepsy and intracranial hemorrhage have been found to be the two main causes of sudden and unexplained deaths in adults due to intracranial pathologies. Intracranial neoplasms are...
Apr 1, 2018 · Of the 189 cases of sudden death, 22 (12%) were due to intracranial pathologies. Amongst these, there were 9 cases of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), 4 of cerebral edema, 3 of Intracerebral...
Aug 24, 2016 · When intracranial pathology becomes more important is in the forensic arena, where it is often supposed that in troublesome cases such as sudden and unexpected deaths or where there appears to be no anatomic cause of death revealed in the general autopsy, the cause must be in the brain.
