World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

HEMOCHOLECYST, A RARE CAUSE OF SUDDEN DEATH

*Djabellah SI-Hadj Mohand, H. Fekhar, H. Sini, M. Adjelout, A. Mizab, N. Benyahia, D. Sadat and B. Boulassel

ABSTRACT

Hemocholecyst is a very low-profile topic in the field of medical and scientific research, particularly in forensic medicine which causes a problem diagnosing the cause and sometimes the circumstances of death. In this context, we report here in a clinical vignette of the forensic medicine department of The Hospital-University Center of Tizi-Ouzou, the case of a 47-year-old man with diabetes and a psychiatric history found without signs of life in his room at the family home, having required the practice of a forensic autopsy, an important hemoperitoneum was found at the opening of the cavities, a traumatic origin of the bleeding was suspected. After a thorough autopsy, a complicated hemocholecyst by digestive hemorrhage caused his death. The origin of the bleeding was difficult to locate but essential to eliminate a traumatic cause of death.

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