ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1983
Page Count: 11

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Biochemical Profile of Postmortem Vitreous Humor
Clardy, DO
Pathologist, pathologist, and criminalist, Forensic Science Services, Office of the Sheriff-Coroner, CA

Richards, RG
Pathologist, pathologist, and criminalist, Forensic Science Services, Office of the Sheriff-Coroner, CA

Fukumoto, RI
Pathologist, pathologist, and criminalist, Forensic Science Services, Office of the Sheriff-Coroner, CA

(Received 25 May 1982; accepted 30 August 1982)

Abstract

Postmortem chemical analysis of vitreous humor from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) infants was done. The results were compared to a pediatric control group. The concentrations of potassium, calcium, phosphorus, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic pyruvate transaminase, creatinine phosphokinase, and lactate dehydrogenase were all significantly different from the pediatric control group. Thus it appears that SIDS infants are a different population from the pediatric control group.

Keywords:
pathology and biology, sudden infant death syndrome, chemical analysis

Paper ID: JFS11522J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11522J
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