Reports a rare incidental finding of systemic granulomatous disease during autopsy for sudden cardiac death due to coronary artery thrombosis.
Forensic experts very commonly encounter cases of sudden deaths during their practice, of which, majority of them are due to cardiac conditions. Sudden cardiac deaths can either be related to cardiac arrest following electrical abnormalities or due to coronary artery disease or any other pathology of heart. Here, we present a rare case of accidentally detected systemic granulomatous disease during histo-pathological examination of tissues collected at the time of post-mortem examination where the cause of death is coronary artery thrombosis.
Patel et al. (Wed,) studied this question.