Open AccessAlcoholic Ketoacidosis as a Cause of Death, Who Came First?
Author(s) -
Jørgen Lange Thomsen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agu059
Subject(s) - autopsy , ketoacidosis , medicine , forensic pathology , diabetic ketoacidosis , psychiatry , statement (logic) , alcohol abuse , cause of death , alcoholic intoxication , pediatrics , medical emergency , poison control , injury prevention , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , law , disease , type 1 diabetes , political science
I read with interest the article ‘The Postmortem Diagnosis of Alcoholic Ketoacidosis’ by Palmiere and Augsburger (2014).However for the sake of truth I must protest against the statement on page 272: ‘The first report in the forensic field suggesting that ketoacidosis could be partially responsible for unexplained deaths in alcoholics dates back to 1993 and concerns a study performed by L.N. Denmark on 49 autopsy cases that included chronic alcohol-abuse related deaths’.Together with my …
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