Causes of XXXX in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

@entity6331 @entity944 @entity301 @entity1283 @entity453 @entity340 @entity204
The aim of this study was to evaluate the causes of @entity204 in individuals who died suddenly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The selection of the cases was based on police reports, which contained a description of sudden unexpected or @entity204 . The study was performed on necropsies of the Medico legal Department of Menelik II Hospital, in Addis Ababa during the years 1998 and 1999. According to the pathological features of the heart, we classified 92 dead bodies in 3 groups: Group A: Hearts showing adequate morphological changes to explain @entity944 (n = 63). Group B: Hearts showing some structural changes, but inadequate to explain @entity944 (n = 20). Group C: Normal hearts (n = 7). In two bodies the general autopsy revealed an extra cardiac cause of @entity204 . The single most relevant cause of @entity204 in group A was @entity453 (44 cases) followed by excessive @entity1283 due to post-rheumatic @entity340 (7 cases). While the high prevalence of @entity6331 in Ethiopia is well known, the proportion of cases who died due to @entity301 is surprising. Though during the last years some African authors assumed that @entity453 is on the increase in developing countries the percentage is higher than expected and higher than in other countries where similar studies exist.
