New Bulletin of Medical Sciences 3(4) 3-7 2019年 [査読有り]
A case of sudden cardiac arrhythmia causing death following volatile substance misuse is presented. A 17-year-old man was found in his dormitory room having suffered a cardiac pulmonary arrest. He was brought to an emergency medical center where h...
Kozawa S   Bhasima S   Sekijima H   Nata M   
Albanian Journal of medical and health science 51 1-14 2019年 [査読有り]
Chronic alcohol consumption remains a global health problem and has been implicated in many chronic and acute diseases. Alcohol consumption is regarded as a major risk factor for sudden cardiac death, with chronic alcohol consumption contributing ...
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 17(5) 351-4 2015年9月 [査読有り]
Acute gastric volvulus resulting in abdominal compartment syndrome was determined to be the cause of death in a 4-year-old girl who presented with abdominal distension. At about 1AM on the day of her death, she was brought to our emergency medical...
Forensic science international 222(1-3) 11-26 2012年10月 [査読有り]
We developed a novel tool for concluding drowning as a cause of death. We designed nine primer pairs to detect representative freshwater or marine bacterioplankton (aquatic bacteria) and then used real-time PCR with TaqMan probes to rapidly and sp...
Forensic science international 220(1-3) 135-46 2012年7月 [査読有り]
Current 454-pyrosequencing technology enables massive parallel sequencing. We used this technology to investigate the diversity of aquatic microbes in 14 specimens (blood and organs) of two drowning victims and in two water samples taken from the ...