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Table 2 Class I discrepancies

From: Discrepancies between clinical and postmortem diagnoses in critically ill patients: an observational study

Clinical cause of death

Postmortem findings

Pneumonia

Myocardium infarction

Pneumonia

Pulmonary oedema/ischaemic heart disease

Pneumonia

Pulmonary embolism

Pneumonia Post-oesophagectomy

Tracheogastric fistula

Aspiration pneumonia Multiorgan failure

Bleeding oesophageal varices

Multiorgan failure

Myocardial Infarction

Septic shock

Myocardial infarction

Multiorgan failure

Bowel infarction

Hepatitis

Inferior vena cava thrombosis

Multiorgan failure ?Lymphoma

Sepsis/perirenal abscess

  1. Shown are the findings in the 10 patients with class I discrepancies. Class I discrepancies represent major missed diagnoses in which knowledge of the postmortem findings might have altered treatment and/or prolonged survival.
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