[Sole guardian's death as a cause of his handicapped mother's death--a case report].
Finding more than one body in the place of residence brings suspicion of poisoning or action of a third party. The authors present a case of two bodies--a handicapped mother and her son--found in their own house. The son was last seen by their neighbours three days before the bodies were revealed. There was a stove in the house which was cold with no signs of penetration. No indication of a third party action was found on the corpses. The autopsy on the son revealed a heart attack with subsequent rupture and tamponade which resulted in death. The cause of the mother's death was assumed to be total starvation of the handicapped person deprived of care. In the presented case autopsy findings contributed to the assessment of the factual cause and sequence of the deaths.
Zakład Medycyny Sadowej Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku, ul. Kilińskiego 1, 15-230 Białystok.
Anna
A
Niemcunowicz-Janica
Iwona
I
Ptaszyńska-Sarosiek
Jerzy
J
Janica
Zofia
Z
Wardaszka
Magdalena
M
Okłota
Witold
W
Pepiński
D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D017028:Caregivers; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013217:Starvation / Q000175:diagnosis*