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Sudden death due to pulmonary aspergillosis
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Sudden death due to pulmonary aspergillosis

Prashantha Bhagavath, Prateek Rastogi, Ritesh G Menezes, Manna Valiathan, T S Mohan Kumar, Y P Raghavendra Babu, Tanuj Kanchan, Francis N P Monteiro and Vinod C Nayak
Journal of forensic and legal medicine, Vol.16(1), pp.27-30
01/01/2009
PMID: 19061846

Abstract

Sudden death due to respiratory pathology is not uncommon and tuberculosis with its complications is well known to cause death. We report a case of a male, train passenger, who started coughing out blood and died on reaching the hospital. Medicolegal autopsy confirmed the sudden unexpected death to be due to pulmonary aspergillosis in the person with past medical history of tuberculosis.

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