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J C Giertsen

Publications and source records attributed to J C Giertsen.

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PubMed1989

Sudden death from asthma.

Deaths from asthma investigated by the Department of Forensic Medicine, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen during the period 1977-1986 were recorded. There were 11 cases with information in the police report of the use of pressurised bronchodilating aerosols prior to death. Seven of the victims were found with the aerosol in the hand or close by the body. Overdosage due to excessive inhalation were suspected in several of the victims. The possibility of side effects due to overuse is discussed. Other mechanisms of death are also discussed.

Administration, Inhalation↗
PubMed1989

Seafaring bodies.

Cases involving two bodies that had drifted for at least 500 km on the high seas are described.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

The fjord murders.

The method used to locate the bodies of victims of a double murder and retrieve them from the bottom of the sea at a depth of 340 m is reviewed.

Craniocerebral Trauma↗
PubMed1988

An explosive decompression accident.

Four divers in a compression chamber system were suddenly decompressed from 9 atm to 1 atm. One of the divers was about to close the door between the chamber system and the trunk when the accident happened. He was shot out through the door and severely mutilated. The three others died on the spot. The autopsy results are described. The most conspicuous finding was large amounts of fat in the large arteries and veins and in the cardiac chambers, as well as intravascular fat in the organs, especially the liver. This fat can hardly have been embolic, but must have "dropped out" of the blood in situ. It is suggested that the boiling of the blood denatured the lipoprotein complexes, rendering the lipids insoluble.

Accidents, Occupational↗
PubMed1987

Changes in autopsy profile--1975 and 1984.

In 1975 diseases of the circulatory system were the major cause of death in our hospital autopsies, with neoplasia a poor second. In 1984 the situation was the reverse. The reduction in diseases of the circulatory system was due mainly to that in cerebrovascular cases, deaths from coronary artery disease being unchanged. The increase in neoplasia affected older women in particular, who died from less common types of cancer. It is suggested that these patients may have escaped death from cerebrovascular disease and avoided cancers that usually kill in middle age, to die later of other age-related types that were less common in 1975. The present findings emphasize the importance of recognizing and adjusting to a changing spectrum of disease that is developing in the ageing population found in a West European country.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

Subependymoma and unexpected death.

A previously healthy 53-year-old man died suddenly and unexpected. The main finding at the post mortem examination was a large 4th ventricle subependymoma, a rare brain tumour related to the ventricles of the brain. The salient features of subependymoma are described with emphasis on the microscopic picture and distinction from subependymal giant cell astrocytoma, as the tumour harboured large, bizarre astrocytes. Coronary atherosclerosis and mild cardiac hypertrophy were present as the only pathologic changes outside the central nervous system. The cause of death is discussed in light of earlier reports on brain tumours and sudden fatal incidents.

Autopsy↗