Whiplash-Associated Disorders : Clinical and medico-legal guidelines on the methods of ascertainment.

The manuscript presents the International Guidelines developed by the Working Group on Personal Injury and Damage under the patronage of the International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM) regarding the Methods of Ascertainment of any suspected Whiplash-Associated Disorders (WAD).The document includes a detailed description of the logical and methodological steps of the ascertainment process as well as a synoptic diagram in the form of Flow Chart.

Giant coronary aneurysm associated with aortic mucoid medionecrosis.

A case of sudden death due to rupture of a dissecting aneurysm of the ascending aorta in a 38-year-old man is presented. The patient had a clinical history of severe hypertension. The autopsy also revealed the presence of a voluminous aneurysm of the right coronary artery and a solitary multilocular cyst of the right kidney. It is thought that a prodromal influenza-like syndrome and the renal lesion could have played a role in causing the vascular pathology.

Sudden death from left atrial pressure line wedging into cardiac valve prosthesis: pathologic findings and forensic significance.

The case of a sudden death from late valve entrapment of a left atrial pressure monitoring line not removed postoperatively is considered from both biomechanical and pathological points of view because of its forensic significance in terms of malpractice liability.