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Query: UMLS:C0040586 (tracheobronchitis)
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One thousand nine hundred and fifty four autopsies performed at British Columbia's Children's Hospital during a 7-year period were reviewed to determine the causes of sudden unexpected natural death in the age group from birth to 17 years. Of the 126 cases found, the largest group, 86 cases, was sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Nine deaths were the result of infection: 4 cases of H. influenza meningitis, 2 cases of meningococcemia, 2 cases of acute epiglottitis, and 1 case of necrotizing tracheobronchitis. Epilepsy, ruptured AV malformations, and brain tumors combined to make up an equally large group of 9 cases. Cardiac lesions were the third largest group, 6 cases. The three groups that posed the most difficulty in assigning a cause of death were (a) the group that were like SIDS yet had other confounding features, (b) the group in which metabolic death was suspected but not proven, and (c) death in epilepsy.
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PMID:Sudden, unexpected, natural death in childhood. 223 62

Acute upper airway obstruction in a 4-month-old male infant who presented as sudden infant death syndrome is described. At autopsy external tracheal compression and tracheobronchitis with plugging of the trachea and bronchi by an abundant mucopurulent exudate were found. The source of the inflammation was the adjacent esophagus where previous impaction of a coin had caused pressure necrosis with mucosal erosion and transmural granulation tissue formation. This case is reported to demonstrate that foreign bodies that remain in the esophagus, having by-passed the larynx, may still result in upper airway obstruction and death in early infancy by this unusual mechanism.
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PMID:Sudden and unexpected death--a late effect of occult intraesophageal foreign body. 223 68

During summer-like outdoor temperature, a seven-month old female infant was put into a sleeping bag, wrapped up with a blanket and tied up by her mother and a friend of hers because of unrest and continuous screaming. Prior to that, between 0.30 a.m. and 0.45 a.m., occurred the rectal measurement of temperature: 37.5 degrees C. The infant died one to two hours later. At 10.00 a.m., about 8 hours after death, in the criminal investigations of the police measurements of temperature were made: rectal 38.1 degrees C; in the pharyngeal cavity 29.5 degrees C; surrounding temperature 22.2 degrees C. In the forensic autopsy, symptoms of maltreatment were noticed: hematoma of the skin at buttock and legs, no essential change of organs. The histological investigation showed an interstitial pulmonary oedema, an acute catarrhal tracheobronchitis and hyperaemic inner organs. Concerning the complete investigation results, an acute cardiac insufficiency and circulatory failure due to hyperthermy after wrapping up and immobilisation of the child were assumed to be the cause of death. In consequence of the avowal of the maltreater they were accused of murder and convicted for bodily injury with death. The difficulties of the differential diagnosis SIDS by hyperthermy and mortal hyperthermy due to maltreatment will be discussed. The necessity of a close cooperation between police and forensic physicians is emphasized as prerequisite to clarify such events.
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PMID:[The differential diagnosis of sudden infant death or child abuse--a case of fatal hyperthermia]. 281 99