title: 1. Fatal acute hepatitis in infectious mononucleosis in a forensic setting: a case report.
abstract: Mononucleosis is generally considered a benign, self-limited disease. However, though uncommon, fatal complications are sometimes encountered. Deaths from liver failure, splenic rupture, respiratory obstruction, neurological complications, secondary infections and bleeding complications have been described. In the forensic setting, there are a few reports of sudden and unexplained deaths from splenic rupture and upper airway obstruction. We report here the first case of sudden and unexplained death from acute hepatitis in infectious mononucleosis presenting as a suspicious death.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale, Edifice Wilfrid-Derome 1701, Parthenais Street, 12th floor, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2K 3S7. a.sauvageau@msp.gouv.qc.ca
authors.forename: Anny
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sauvageau
authors.forename: Stéphanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Racette
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007244:Infectious Mononucleosis / Q000150:complications*; D011792:Quebec