Publication Type : Journal Article
Publisher : Elsevier BV
Source : Forensic Science International
Url : https://doi.org/10.1016/s0379-0738(98)00078-4
Keywords : Neurocysticercosis, Sudden death, Trauma
Campus : Faridabad
School : School of Medicine
Year : 1998
Abstract : Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the commonest parasitic infection affecting the central nervous system in the world. However, sudden death is rare in these cases. Increased intracranial pressure, hydrocephalus, acute encephalitis, meningitis and reaction to antilarval drugs are the common causes of death in NCC. The case reported here is a rare case of sudden death, in an apparently healthy asymptomatic young adult male, who met with a vehicular accident and died almost instantaneously due to ruptured cysts of cysticerci produced by trauma. Possible mode of death is also discussed.
Cite this Research Publication : S.K Verma, B.B.L Agarwal, Gaurav Agarwal, Sudden death in neurocysticercosis by trauma, Forensic Science International, Elsevier BV, 1998, https://doi.org/10.1016/s0379-0738(98)00078-4