Background: The long-term risk for major bleeding in patients receiving extended (beyond
the initial 3 to 6 months) anticoagulant therapy for a first unprovoked venous …

Ischemic heart disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and death worldwide.
Consequently, myocardial infarctions are often encountered in clinical and forensic …

Background The long‐term risk for recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) during
extended anticoagulation for a first unprovoked VTE is uncertain. Objectives To determine …

Postmortem imaging (PMI) is increasingly used in postmortem practice and is considered a
potential alternative to a conventional autopsy, particularly in case of sudden cardiac deaths …

Purpose To compare the diagnostic performance of minimally invasive autopsy with that of
conventional autopsy. Materials and Methods For this prospective, single-center, cross …

2 Thali MJ, Yen K, Schweitzer W, et al. Virtopsy, a new imaging horizon in forensic
pathology: virtual autopsy by postmortem multislice computed tomography (MSCT) and …

In the past 2 decades, modern radiological methods, such as multiple detector computed
tomography (MDCT), MDCT-angiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

The diagnosis of early acute myocardial infarction is of particular importance in forensic
practice considering the frequency of sudden cardiac death and the difficulty of positively …

Pulmonary embolism (PE)‐related death is often a component of the primary outcome in
venous thromboembolism (VTE) clinical studies. Definitions for PE‐related death vary …

Rationale and objective: Forensic radiology is a relatively unknown subspecialty which is
becoming increasingly more important. The field incorporates antemortem and postmortem …