Table 1:
Demographics and details on post-mortem fixation for all ex vivo brain specimens. DVT: Deep Vein Thrombosis. HTN: Hypertension, DIC: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, PE: pulmonary embolism, DAD: Diffuse Alveolar Damage.
| Specimen number |
Age | Sex | Medical history | Cause of death | Post- mortem fixation interval (h) |
Fixative | Fixation- to- imaging duration (M) |
Histology included |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56-60 | F | Cecal adenocarcinoma (metastatic), DVT, depression | Septic shock | <24 | 10% formalin | 24 | yes |
| 2 | 61-65 | F | HTN, ovarian cancer (metastatic) | Septic shock | 72 | 10% formalin | 20 | yes |
| 3 | 46-50 | M | Depression, leukemia, Raynoud’s phenomena, thromboembolism | DIC due to Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis | <24 | 10% formalin | 93 | no |
| 4 | 56-60 | F | Breast cancer, ulcerative colitis | PE and/or DAD in setting of widely metastatic breast cancer | <24 | 10% formalin | 92 | no |
| 5 | 81-85 | M | Hyperlipidemia, chronic respiratory deficiency | Acute respiratory failure | 23 | 5% formalin | 50 | no |