The pathomorphologic characteristic of infant mortality on the basis of SBI “Medicolegal Investigation Bureau” MH RS (Y)

Abstract

The retrospective analysis of medicolegal data of sudden deaths of infants aged from 0 to 12 months at home was carried out for 2011 - 2014. We analyzed the structure and characteristics of the cases of mortality of infants with the exception of violent deaths and home birth deaths cases. A complex of clinicopathologic assessment allowed to classify two nosologic groups: deaths from viral pneumonia and deaths from sudden infant death syndrome. Histopathology of pneumonia death cases was characterized by bilateral total macrophage-desquamative pneumonia with hemorrhagic component of viral etiology analyzed by morphological and virologic methods of examination. Тhe sudden infant death syndrome analysis did not show any evident pathomorphological findings which might be considered as a death cause. It should be noted that the sudden infant death occurred in apparently healthy infants.