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    La autopsia blanca

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    En Patología Forense, frecuentemente nos encontramos con autopsias de muertes súbitas en las que se observan lesiones inespecíficas (edema pulmonar y/o cerebral) como únicos hallazgos macroscópicos y en ocasiones también microscópicos. La información clínica suele ser escasa, la muerte normalmente ocurre sin testigos y el lugar del levantamiento aporta pocos datos orientativos. Nos encontramos, en principio, ante la llamada incorrectamente «autopsia blanca». En estos casos, es imprescindible descartar la participación de tóxicos o trastornos electrolíticos, así como estar familiarizados con todas aquellas patologías que puedan cursar con una muerte súbita. La casuística en este tipo de muertes es reducida debido a su escasa frecuencia y a la dificultad de inscribir correctamente la causa de muerte en los registros de mortalidad. Este artículo trata de revisar aquellas patologías extracardíacas que, con mayor frecuencia, nos podemos encontrar en este tipo de autopsias: muerte súbita e inesperada del epiléptico, trauma cerebral mínimo, asma bronquial, hipertensión pulmonar, microembolismo, diabetes mellitus tipo I y cetoacidosis alcohólica. En muchos de estos casos, los estudios químico-toxicológicos e histológicos postmortem pueden establecer la causa de muerte, si los datos clínicos y los obtenidos en el momento del levantamiento son compatibles con la misma.Sudden death autopsy is a frequent event in forensic pathology. In a percentage of these cases, unspecific pathology (pulmonary and/or cerebral edema) is the only feature observed in postmortem examination. Deaths are usually witnessed. Clinical data, scene information and circumstances of death are insufficient. The aim of this paper is to review the most frequent extracardiac diseases that could result in a negative autopsy: SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy), bronchial asthma, minimal traumatic brain injury, pulmonary hypertension, microembolism (fat, amniotic fluid and air embolism), type I diabetes mellitus (dead in bed syndrome) and alcoholic ketoacidosis. Laboratory tests and careful histological examination may establish the cause of death in cases where clinical and scene data are compatible.Molina Aguilar, Pilar, [email protected] ; Dasi Martinez, Concha, [email protected] ; Gisbert Grifo, Marina, [email protected]

    Ahora / Ara

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    La cinquena edició del microrelatari per l’eradicació de la violència contra les dones de l’Institut Universitari d’Estudis Feministes i de Gènere «Purificación Escribano» de la Universitat Jaume I vol ser una declaració d’esperança. Aquest és el moment en el qual les dones (i els homes) hem de fer un pas endavant i eliminar la violència sistèmica contra les dones. Ara és el moment de denunciar el masclisme i els micromasclismes començant a construir una societat més igualitària. Cadascun dels relats del llibre és una denúncia i una declaració que ens encamina cap a un món millor

    The genetic legacy of religious diversity and intolerance: paternal lineages of Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula.

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    Most studies of European genetic diversity have focused on large-scale variation and interpretations based on events in prehistory, but migrations and invasions in historical times may also have had profound effects on the genetic landscape. The Iberian peninsula provides a suitable region to examine the demographic impact of such recent events, since its complex recent history has involved the long-term residence of two very different populations with distinct geographical origins, and their own particular cultural and religious characteristics – North African Muslims, and Sephardic Jews. To address this question we analysed Y chromosome haplotypes, which provide the necessary phylogeographic resolution, in 1140 males from the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Admixture analysis based on binary and Y-STR haplotypes indicates a high mean proportion of ancestry from North African (10.6%) and Sephardic Jewish (19.8%) sources. Despite alternative possible sources for lineages ascribed a Sephardic Jewish origin, these proportions attest to a high level of religious conversion (whether voluntary or enforced), driven by historical episodes of social and religious intolerance, that ultimately led to the integration of descendants. In agreement with the historical record, analysis of haplotype sharing and diversity within specific haplogroups suggests that the Sephardic Jewish component is the more ancient. The geographical distribution of North African ancestry in the peninsula does not reflect the initial colonization and subsequent withdrawal, and is likely to result from later enforced population movement - more marked in some regions that others – plus the effects of genetic drift
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