Mechanical asphyxia by three different mechanisms.

We report the case of death of a 75-year-old Caucasian woman, produced by three different ways of mechanical asphyxia: smothering and strangulation by hand and traumatic asphyxia by thoracic compression. All these criminal offences were carried out by one single assailant who compressed the mouth and the nose of the victim with the left hand, squeezed her neck with the right hand and pressed her thorax with the knees.

[Proposal for macroscopic examination of the heart , of the great vessels and of the lungs in forensic pathology]. / Propunere de examinare macroscopica a cordului, vaselor mari si pulmonilor în medicina legala.

Our work presents a kind of proceeding for the cardio-pulmonary dissection and forensic examination. As a result of the necessity to have right from the time of the autopsy more clear data regarding the cause of death, in order to be able to direct the judicial investigation towards a certain type of death, this proceeding presents, in our opinion, several important advantages--in comparison to the common examination method--such as the facility macroscopic diagnosis in some heart diseases: arrhythmogenic displasy of the right ventricle, mitral valve prolapse and other valvulopathies.