W Tributsch’s research while affiliated with University of Innsbruck and other places

... For the development of cataract, various dose values were presented for the wavelengths between 290 and 365 nm in the literature. [13][14][15] The retina is damaged by thermal or blue light-induced photochemical damage in the wavelength range of 400-1400 nm. 16 In short UV treatment times up to 120 minutes, the photochemical damage is reduced by antioxidative protective mechanisms in the lens. ...

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Safety of UVA-Riboflavin Cross-Linking of the Cornea

... 14,16 The accurate estimation of the prevalence of FES is nonetheless complicated by possible non-traumatic causes of the condition. Some of these include (i) forensic causes such as burns or hypothermia 19 and (ii) medical cases such as cosmetic surgery (e.g. liposuction/ lipoinjection), 20-23 cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, complications of diabetes mellitus, decompression sickness, intra-osseous infusion of corticosteroid therapy, 24 acupuncture, 25 parenteral lipid infusion and caesarean delivery. ...

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Fat embolism: a systematic review to facilitate the development of standardised procedures in pathology

... High altitude environments are underrepresented, only three conference abstracts having described scavengers in a research facility at almost 2,900m AMSL [33][34][35]. However, the frequency of finds in mountainous regions ("orobiomes") is expected to increase due to proceeding glacial melt and shorter periods of snow cover [4,122,123]. Thus, more research would be useful, e.g. to better differentiate scavenger-induced from geologically/glacially caused dispersal patterns. ...

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Forensic experiments on animal scavenging: A systematic literature review on what we have and what we need

... Such sensitivity may result from the changes in the electric field of the atmosphere, preceding arrival of a weather front [30][31][32]. It has also been reported that changes in atmospheric pressure produce adverse effects in the human body, possibly also leading to cardiac incidents [33][34][35][36]. ...

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Impact of Foehn Wind and Related Environmental Variables on the Incidence of Cardiac Events

... Nonspecific gastritis lesions were noted; although, physiopathologically, in response to the stress of the climatic aggression, the lesions could be likened to marks or Wischnewski spots, they did not have their typical characteristics: macroscopically visible hemorrhagic puncture erosions of the gastric and duodenal mucosa, or multiple superficial ulcers, 0.1-0.5 cm in diameter, often aligned with a regular spacing (10,17,25,26). Despite their lack of specificity, all authors assign considerable importance to these lesions in the postmortem diagnosis of hypothermia (10,17,(24)(25)(26)(27)(28). ...

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Death from Hypothermia during a Training Course under "Extreme Conditions": Related to Two Cases

... Based on a 32-year study performed in Australia, Sherry and Clout calculated 0.45 cardiac-related deaths per one million skier-days (about 1 SCD/2,200,000 skier-days) (36). Early autopsy results (n=135, 1978-1987 and n=78, 1987-1990) from the Austrian alps revealed that almost 25% were non-traumatic (sudden) deaths, myocardial infarction being the dominant cause, triggered by the elevated cardiovascular load at higher altitudes (3,4). From 1985 through 1991 we recorded 416 SCDs in the Austrian Alps, representing approximately 30% of all deaths that occurred during mountain sports activities (13). ...

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Sudden Cardiac Death during Mountain Sports Activities

... Examples of natural mummification by desiccation are typically found in hot and arid environments, such as Egypt [3], Nubia [4], the Canary Islands [5], and sometimes in combination with cold arid plateaus, such as in northern Chile/southern Peru [6][7][8]. Ö tzi, a Neolithic Iceman found in a glacier in the Italian Alps, is an example of exceptional mummification resulting from desiccation in extreme cold [9,10]. Mummification can also be facilitated in temperate environments with the addition of a chemical desiccant, such as salt. ...

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Post Mortem DNA Degradation of Human Tissue Experimentally Mummified in Salt

... Neopterin (D-erytro-1 ,2 ,3 -trihydroxypropylterin), a biochemical product of guanosine triphosphate pathway, has been proposed to aid in the diagnosis of bacterial [113] and viral infections [114]. Also in the forensic literature neopterin has been proposed as a marker of inflammatory diseases [115][116][117]. Postmortem serum neopterin levels over 500 nmol/L were observed in bacterial and viral infection cases as well as in delayed deaths due to trauma [118]. ...

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A Pathophysiological Insight into Sepsis and Its Correlation with Postmortem Diagnosis

... Adipocere (or ''grave wax'') is a grayish to white crumbly wax-like and water-insoluble organic material formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat (i.e. saponification) in human (especially women, infants and overweighed individuals) and some animal tissues [1][2][3][4][5]. When appearing, putrefaction is replaced by a permanent and stable firm cast of fatty tissues and face, and, in some cases, of internal organs. ...

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Identification of toxics in adipocere: Two case reports

... 13,21 Furthermore there are less common suicide cases with more than one entrance wound. 1,5,13,17,20,22,23 This study presents the characteristics of gunshot suicides and places by special emphasis on the cases with multiple entrance wounds. ...

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Characterization of the gunshot suicides