Suicide of a diabetic by inducing hyperglycemic coma.
Deaths due to hyperglycemic and hyperosmolar coma in diabetics are usually disease-related. In the exceptional case reported here there was evidence for an intentional ingestion of a sugar solution, the person was a diabetic and known to be depressive suggesting a suicidal intention. The autopsy findings were inconspicuous and only further laboratory findings led to the final diagnosis.
Banaschak
S
S
Institute of Legal Medicine, Münster, Germany.
Bajanowski
T
T
Brinkmann
B
B
D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods*; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D001826:Body Fluids / Q000737:chemistry; D002423:Cause of Death; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D019422:Dietary Sucrose / Q000506:poisoning*; D062787:Drug Overdose; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D006944:Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Coma / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology
D001786:Blood Glucose; D019422:Dietary Sucrose; D005947:Glucose