title: Sudden death due to pulmonary aspergillosis.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
authors.forename: Prashantha
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bhagavath
authors.forename: Prateek
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rastogi
authors.forename: Ritesh G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Menezes
authors.forename: Manna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valiathan
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Mohan Kumar
authors.forename: Y P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Raghavendra Babu
authors.forename: Tanuj
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanchan
authors.forename: Francis N P
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Monteiro
authors.forename: Vinod C
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Nayak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000473:pathology; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007422:Intestines / Q000473:pathology; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000473:pathology; D055732:Pulmonary Aspergillosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013270:Stomach / Q000473:pathology; D014132:Trachea / Q000473:pathology