Sudden death due to pulmonary aspergillosis.
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.
Bhagavath
Prashantha
P
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
Rastogi
Prateek
P
Menezes
Ritesh G
RG
Valiathan
Manna
M
Mohan Kumar
T S
TS
Raghavendra Babu
Y P
YP
Kanchan
Tanuj
T
Monteiro
Francis N P
FN
Nayak
Vinod C
VC
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