Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Gabriele Lasczkowski.
Conjunctival petechiae from 15 cases (cause of death: different natural and unnatural) were analysed using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) in order to visualize the kind of the damage within the vessel wall (diapedesis versus rhexis). The pathomorphological findings with multiple ruptures of vessels appearing to be filled to bursting point define the conjunctival petechiae as a rhexis-haemorrhage.
The bodies of two men in their early forties were found lying in a peculiar position in an apartment. Police and medical investigations suggested that both had, at the most, died 2 weeks earlier. One of the men was kneeling, holding on to the back of a chair-with his hand, and was bent over the second man lying on the floor. Both men were known as former addicts, but were assumed to be clean for a long period of time. The autopsy revealed that the two men died from an acute heroine intoxication in combination with alcohol. The man who lay on the floor additionally had chronic heart disease. It could be excluded that any other persons were involved in this case and that other causes of death had to be considered. The peculiar scene could be explained by the obvious order of death and as a consequence of mummification.