Table 1. Final indirect causes of death^*1.

Organ-related causes of death
Respiratory organs	Pneumonia, pulmonary gangrene, pleuritis, pleural empyema, pneumothorax, pyopneumothorax, infarction
Cardiovascular organs	Coronary thrombosis, pericardial tamponade, coronary insufficiency, myocarditis, myocardial infarction
	Organic diseases of the heart: e.g., endocarditis, cardiac hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy with mesaortitis, cor pulmonale, calcific constrictive pericarditis (concretio cordis), cardiac insufficiency
Central nervous system: cerebral death	Brain hemorrhage, encephalomalacia, cerebral contusion, cerebral swelling, cerebral edema, encephalitis, status epilepticus, leptomeningitis, pachymeningitis, subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma
Gastrointestinal tract	Ileus, peritonitis. In children: gastroenteritis, enterocolitis, poisoning, dyspepsia, dystrophy, atrophy
Liver	Hepatic coma
Pancreas	Diabetic coma, hypoglycemic coma, hemorrhagic pancreatic necrosis
Kidneys	Uremia, urosepsis
Non-organ-related causes of death
Fatal embolisms	Thromboembolism, especially pulmonary embolism, fat embolism, air embolism
Bleeding, internal and external, e.g.:	Hemoptysis, melena, hemothorax, hemoperitoneum
Sepsis	As sequela of phlegmons and the like, pyemia, generalized miliary tuberculosis, urosepsis; see also uremia
Tumors	Tumor-associated cachexia, tumor-associated anemia
Special last indirect causes of death
Malformations incompatible with life	e.g. cerebral aplasia, anencephaly
Special causes of death in fetuses and newborns	Intrauterine asphyxia with/without aspiration of amniotic fluid, chorioamnionitis, dystrophy in the premature newborn

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