Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 31 No. (1-4), 1999.
Professional paper
The cause of death in five year period in the Osijek clinical hospital
Suzana Mimica
Branko Dmitrović
Mladen Marcikić
Milanka Mrčela
Zorislav Kraus
Damir Dumić
Valerija Blažičević
Abstract
The study included 2104 patients who had an autopsy made at the Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine in Osijek Clinical Hospital in the period from 1989 till 1995, but we excluded two year: 1991 and 1992 due to the war. In that period we performed a autopsy in 51.62% of all the dead patients, and the percentage has not dropped like in other development countries. Most of the autopsied patients died in their sixtiex and were treated at the Internal Clinics. Leading causes of death were: ischemic heart disease, differently localized malignant tumors, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, brain hypertensive hemorrhage, respiratory distress syndrome and hemrrhage. In 40.30% of the cases the cause of death were cardiovascular diseases. The autopsy findings correspondend with the clinical ones in 70.30% of the cases, but they did not in the case of patient who died in less than 24 hours upon his admission. However, in the case of patients who stayed longer than 24 hours, the time spent in the hospital did not influence accuracy of clinical diagnosis. In spite of all modem diagnostic procedures, autopsy plays an important role in determining the cause of death and (non) confirming the clinical diagnosis.
Keywords
Cause of death; Five year period; Osijek Clinical Hospital
Hrčak ID:
191964
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1999.
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