Table 2.
Clinicalpathological details of postmortem patients.
| NBB | Autopsy | Sex | Age | BW (g) | PMD (h) | FT (d) | Death time | Death month | Time in papaffin (y) | AIDS | Diagnosis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heterosexual men (n = 13) | |||||||||||
| 94–040 | 94/019 | m | 20 | 1490 | 41.00 | 82 | 8:30 | 1 | 26 | N | Heart failure; Fibronous hemorrhagic pneumonia; B-cell lymphoma |
| 89–024 | 89/059.2 | m | 21 | 1430 | 49.00 | 25 | 16:00 | 2 | 31 | Y | AIDS; mycobacterial infections; pneumonia; cerebrovascular accident |
| 82–020 | 82/181 | m | 27 | 1560 | 41.00 | 40 | 0:00 | 7 | 38 | N | Drug addiction; sepsis; cerebral edema |
| 86–042 | 86/414.1 | m | 28 | 1450 | 17.00 | 46 | 0:00 | 11 | 34 | N | Guilian–-Barré syndrome; bronchopneumonia |
| 89–042 | 86/116.2 | m | 30 | 1340 | 29.75 | 25 | 4:15 | 4 | 31 | Y | AIDS; disseminated non–Hodgkin lymphoma infections; drug use |
| 86–048 | 86/436.5 | m | 30 | 1430 | 8.83 | 37 | 1:10 | 12 | 34 | Y | AIDS; pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; lung tuberculosis; toxoplasmosis |
| 97–075 | 97/096. | m | 33 | 1410 | 18.75 | 32 | 14:15 | 5 | 23 | N | Brain damage following motor accident |
| 98–031 | 97/406 | m | 33 | 1588 | 18.42 | 72 | 18:35 | 12 | 23 | N | Status post traffic accident |
| 98–144 | 98/156. | m | 36 | 1710 | 17.67 | 33 | 19:20 | 9 | 22 | Y | HIV-encephalopathy |
| 87–069 | 87/345.1 | m | 41 | 1440 | 99.98 | 31 | 0:00 | 10 | 33 | N | Cerebral contusion; lung emboli |
| 88–011 | 88/039.1 | m | 41 | 1500 | 20.50 | 33 | 13:30 | 1 | 32 | N | Fortral and benzodiazepine intoxication; heart failure |
| 93–072 | 93/026 | m | 50 | 1573 | 9.00 | 52 | 8:00 | 1 | 27 | N | Hypovolemic shock |
| 95–102 | 95/310 | m | 53 | 1383 | 10.00 | 33 | 7:30 | 11 | 25 | N | type A dissection of the ascending aorta |
| homosexual men (n = 13) | |||||||||||
| 89–031 | 89/079.3 | m | 25 | 1530 | 23.00 | 28 | 9:30 | 3 | 31 | Y | AIDS, pneumonia |
| 88–009 | 88/030.5 | m | 30 | 1480 | 4.93 | 27 | 10:04 | 1 | 32 | Y | AIDS; cytomegalic infections; active euthanasia |
| 86–046 | 86/426.1 | m | 32 | 1440 | 48.83 | 11 | 9:10 | 12 | 34 | Y | AIDS; pneumocystic carinii pneumonia |
| 89–109 | 89/7898. | m | 32 | 1340 | 9.50 | 134 | 2:00 | 2 | 31 | Y | AIDS |
| 86–038 | 86/398.1 | m | 37 | 1210 | \ | 5 | 0:00 | 1 | 34 | Y | AIDS |
| 89–084 | 89/262.5 | m | 39 | 1670 | 41.00 | 28 | 0:00 | 8 | 31 | Y | AIDS; Kaposi’s sarcoma |
| 87–080 | 87/396.5 | m | 39 | 1320 | 89.00 | 28 | 0:00 | 11 | 33 | Y | AIDS; progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy |
| 87–084 | 87/466.2 | m | 40 | 1520 | 17.00 | 27 | 0:00 | 12 | 33 | Y | AIDS |
| 87–030 | 87/159.5 | m | 41 | 1520 | 41.00 | 40 | 0:00 | 5 | 33 | Y | AIDS; respiratoire insufficientie |
| 88–087 | 88/285.0 | m | 41 | 1240 | 8.17 | 34 | 8:50 | 8 | 32 | Y | AIDS; bronchopneumonia; cytomegalic infections; toxoplasmosis |
| 86–043 | 86/415.6 | m | 42 | 1340 | \ | 24 | 0:00 | 1 | 34 | Y | AIDS; Karposi’s sarcoma; generalized mycobacterium avium infections |
| 88–121 | 88/384.5 | m | 42 | 1340 | 18.75 | 30 | 13:45 | 11 | 32 | Y | AIDS; cytomegalic meningoencephalitis |
| 86–023 | 86/262.5 | m | 43 | 1260 | 2.00 | 100 | 0:00 | 8 | 34 | Y | AIDS; disseminated Karposi’s sarcoma; pneumonia |
| p-value | 0.227 | 0.105 | 0.621 | 0.098 | 0.253 | 0.154 | 0.073 | ||||
NBB patients number of the Netherlands Brain Bank, m male, BW brain weight, PMD postmortem delay, FT fixation time, g grams, h hours, d days, y years, Y yes, N no, AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AZT azidothymidine, DHPG dehydroxy-phenylglycol.