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Medico-legal study on prediction of the interval between alcohol intoxication and death

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11670406
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Legal medicine
Research InstitutionHirosaki University

Principal Investigator

KURODA Naohito  Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 医学部, 教授 (40161799)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SHINOZUKA Tatsuo  Assistant Professor, Department of Legal Medicine, Keio University, School of Medicine, 医学部, 講師 (70095610)
MURAI Tatsuya  Professor, Department of Legal Medicine, Keio University, School of Medicine, 医学部, 教授 (80129692)
YOSHIOKA Naofumi  Professor, Department of Legal Medicine, Akita University, Faculty of Medicine, 医学部, 教授 (80108935)
TANNO Kozo  Assistant, Department of Forensic Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 医学部, 助手 (20327026)
SANNOHE Seiya  Assistant, Department of Forensic Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 医学部, 助手 (30312490)
齋藤 一之  埼玉医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (10215535)
Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Keywordsalcohol / interval between alcohol intoxication and death / postmortem examination / vitreous humor / cerebrospinal fluid
Research Abstract

The possibility of prediction of the interval between the commencing or finishing time and death was surveyed by measuring alcohol concentrations of several body fluids obtained from the autopsy cases examined during the period starting April, 1999 up to and including March, 2003, based upon the principle that absorption, distribution and discharge of ethanol are unequal in the body fluids. The correlation coefficients of ethanol concentrations amongst the cadaveric body fluids of 85 intoxicated fatal cases were as follows; heart blood / femoral venous blood: 0.923, heart blood / urine: 0.848, heart blood / cerebrospinal fluid: 0.926, heart blood / vitreous humor: 0.796, femoral venous blood / urine: 0.860, femoral venous blood / cerebrospinal fluid: 0.905, femoral blood / vitreous humor: 0.905, urine / cerebrospinal fluid: 0.772, urine / vitreous humor: 0.902, cerebrospinal fluid / vitreous humor: 0.872. The tendency that the ratios of blood alcohol concentration(BAC)/vitreous humor alcohol concentration(VHAC) were lower in the cases with shorter intervals between alcohol intoxication and death, whereas they were higher in the cases with the longer intervals, as it was expected. The estimation of the period between alcohol intoxication and death depends on the hypothesis that comparison of two parameters, 1)clear difference of alcohol concentration in several body fluid and 2)clear information about the time of starting or ending alcohol intake, enables the prediction of the interval. Though it was not successful to create nomograms for predicting the interval within a limited period in this study for unexpectedly small number of cases with necessary information, it is expected that a more accurate conclusion will be obtained by a further survey with much more proper cases in the same method.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All Other

All Publications (1 results)

  • [Publications] Naohito Kuroda,Takeshi Kita,Seiya Sannohe: "Medico-legal significance of the differences in ethanol concentrations of body fluids"Hirosaki Medical Journal. 51(Suppl.). s6-s9 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1999-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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