La morte da cocaina nel settorato medico-legale barese: contributo casistico

The Authors have carried out a survey of deaths linked to recreation a cocaine use observed in the Medico-legal Section of Bari. 13 cases were identified and analysed, the first of which occurred in 1988. In each case an examination was made of circumstantal data, results of post mortem investigations, anatomopathological observation and results of toxicological laboratory investigations. Special attention was paid to macroscopic and microscopic cardiovascular pathologies, with respect to wich eliopathogenetic hypotheses are advanced in relation to their onset and the concausal role played in bringing about death