Table 1.

Examples of exclusion criteria that either lead to, or potentially could have caused death, based upon macroscopic and histological findings in 1,190 infant autopsy cases based upon differing organs

Organ	Exclusion criteria on macroscopic findings	Exclusion criteria on histological findings	Cases included
Heart	Myocardial Infarction, Ruptured ventricular aneurysm, Transplanted Heart, Cardiomyopathy	Myocarditis; rejection; extensive myocardial infarction	868
Lungs	Empyema, Laryngeal Stenosis/Atresia, Abscess, pulmonary hypoplasia as provided in the post-mortem report	TB, PCP Pneumonitis, Chronic Lung Disease, Asthma	764
Liver	Moderate to severe necrosis/infarction, tumour, haemorrhage	Acute or chronic hepatitis with necrosis, liver abscesses, neoplasia	1051
Spleen	Splenic laceration, haematoma	Abscess, malignancy or acute splenic sequestration	1101
Kidneys	Neoplasia, cystic dysplasia.	Neoplasia, dysplasia, cystic disease, glomerulonephritis or severe acute rejection.	1040
Pancreas	Neoplasia, haemorrhage, necrosis	Neoplasia, necrosis	1025
Thymus	Abscess or thymus encased in pus	Lymphoma, or Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis	1023
Adrenals	Abscesses, hypoplasia, necrosis or haemorrhage	Neoplasia, haemorrhage with necrosis	1039