类胰蛋白酶在过敏性休克死者心肺肠组织中的表达

目的观察过敏性休克死亡者心、肺及空肠组织中类胰蛋白酶免疫荧光表达的强度,为过敏性休克死亡提供法医学鉴定依据。方法运用免疫荧光染色法对过敏性休克死亡者心、肺及空肠组织进行类胰蛋白酶染色,荧光显微镜观察并采集图像,Image-pro plus6.2软件进行图像分析并计算阳性颗粒数,运用SPSS17.0软件进行统计学分析。结果过敏性休克死亡者心、肺及空肠组织中类胰蛋白酶的表达均明显高于对照组(P0.05),其差异具有统计学意义。结论当高度怀疑过敏性休克但无法获得满意的血液标本时,检测其心、肺及空肠组织中类胰蛋白酶的免疫表达可作为过敏性休克死亡法医学鉴定的辅助手段。     

类胰蛋白酶和IgE测定在过敏性猝死诊断中的应用研究

目的探讨过敏性猝死法医学鉴定的诊断方法和指标。方法采取10例正常人、9例过敏性猝死和19例其他死因（排除过敏反应、冠心病）尸体的静脉血，采用荧光酶联免疫法（Pharmacia UniCAP100过敏原定量分析仪）和酶联免疫吸附试验ELISA法分别测定血清肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶和]gE含量，采用免疫组化方法观察过敏性猝死和其他死因的肺组织中的肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶免疫组化染色。结果过敏性猝死者的血清类胰蛋白酶和IgE含量升高，与其他死因之间的差异具有显著性意义（P〈0．01），其他死因和正常人之间的差异无统计学意义（P〉0．05）；与其它死因相比，过敏性猝死肺组织中的肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶免疫组化阳性染色增强（P〈0．01）。结论过敏性猝死者血清IgE和肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶含量显著升高；过敏性猝死者肺组织中肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶染色增强。     

实验性兔羊水栓塞肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶的含量变化

目的观察家兔羊水栓塞 (AFE)后肺组织中肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶 (MCT)含量的变化。方法分别于健康怀孕家兔耳缘静脉注入羊水、制造羊水栓塞的动物模型 ;取肺组织进行HE染色和免疫组织化学MCT染色 ,镜下观察AFE兔肺组织中MCT的变化。结果对照组兔肺组织MCT呈弱阳性反应 (平均阳性细胞计数 11 2 5个 ) ,注入羊水组和注入胎盘提取液与羊水混合液组肺组织中MCT呈强阳性反应 (平均阳性细胞计数分别为 3 2 98和 45 5 3个 )。结论在羊水栓塞时兔肺组织MCT含量增加     

过敏性和冠心病猝死者心肌组织中肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶、脑利钠肽的表达

目的探讨肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶、脑利钠肽(brain natriuretic peptide,BNP)在过敏性猝死和冠心病猝死鉴别诊断中的意义。方法选取山西医科大学法医病理学教研室2010—2015年尸检案例心肌标本共30例,分为颅脑损伤致死组、过敏性猝死组、冠心病猝死组,每组各10例。采用免疫荧光染色和Western印迹法分析各组心肌组织肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶和BNP的表达。结果过敏性猝死组、冠心病猝死组心肌组织内肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶免疫荧光染色均出现阳性染色;三组间两两比较,表达差异均具有统计学意义(P0.05)。冠心病猝死组心肌组织内BNP的表达量高于过敏性猝死组、颅脑损伤致死组(P0.05),过敏性猝死组与颅脑损伤致死组之间差异无统计学意义(P0.05)。结论联合检测心肌组织内肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶、BNP有望为过敏性猝死和冠心病猝死的法医学鉴别诊断提供帮助。     

肺肥大细胞的形态变化观察

<正> 肺组织中的肥大细胞(Mast cell,MC),其胞浆内充满含多种生物活性物质的特征性颗粒,直接或间接参与病理生理过程。国内外学者对人体皮肤损伤时MC的研究已有报道,但肺性死亡时人体肺MC     

过敏性休克死亡者肺组织类胰蛋白酶及类糜蛋白酶的表达

目的观察类胰蛋白酶与类糜蛋白酶在过敏性休克死亡人体肺组织中的表达,并探讨其在过敏性休克死亡法医学鉴定中的意义。方法应用荧光免疫组化法对类胰蛋白酶与类糜蛋白酶进行检测,同时以10例CO中毒死者为对照：采用图像分析仪及Image—pro plus 5．0．2软件进行图像分析,计算阳性肥大细胞数及类胰蛋白酶、类糜蛋白酶荧光表达强度。结果与对照组相比,实验组肺组织中类胰蛋白酶和类糜蛋白酶表达差异有统计学意义（P〈0．05）。结论过敏性休克死亡人体肺组织中类胰蛋白酶与类糜蛋白酶的表达增强．可作为过敏性休克死亡的形态学诊断依据。     

肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶的免疫组化染色观察

目的　观察过敏性休克死亡者咽喉、肺、小肠组织肥大细胞类胰蛋白酶 (MCT) ,探讨过敏性休克死亡法医鉴定的形态学依据。方法　交通事故致严重颅脑损伤死亡者 10例 (对照组 )、明确诊断为过敏性休克死亡者 15例(实验A组 )和羊水栓塞死亡者 8例 (实验B组 )的尸体 ,分别取其咽喉部、肺及小肠组织 ,石蜡切片 ,HE染色及用免疫组化超敏SP法进行MCT染色。结果　实验A组的咽喉部组织充血、水肿 ,咽喉部粘膜下层MCT增多 (MCT颗粒计数为 48 2 3 ) ;实验B组的咽喉部粘膜下层MCT增多 (MCT颗粒计数为 42 72 )。肺间质尤其是小支气管壁及小血管壁上MCT增多 (MCT颗粒计数分别为 46 98和 43 5 0 ) ,小肠粘膜层MCT增多 (MCT颗粒计数分别为 48 2 3和 42 72 )。对照组的咽喉部、肺和小肠MCT颗粒计数较少 ,分别为 7 79、 12 94和 2 0 2 5。实验A组与对照组相比 ,两组具有显著性差异 (P <0 0 1) ;实验A、B组相比 ,两组无显著性差异 (P >0 0 1)。结论　过敏性休克及羊水栓塞死亡的尸体 ,其咽喉部组织、肺组织及胃肠道组织MCT增多。     

人体皮肤索沟局部肥大细胞脱颗粒率的观察

本文观察人体皮肤索沟局部肥大细胞脱颗粒率变化。发现生前皮肤损伤局部脱颗粒率在皮肤受在处及距受压边缘０～１．０ｍｍ区域明显升高（＞４９％），与死后皮肤索沟有显著差异（Ｐ＜０．００１）。作者认为损伤局部肥大细胞脱颗粒率明显升高（＞４９％）可作为人体生前索沟的诊断依据。     

宝塔红在过敏性猝死尸检中的应用初探

目的验证宝塔红染色法在过敏性猝死尸检中的应用可行性。方法选取我系历年过敏性猝死的案件30例,非过敏性死亡的案件30例,用1%宝塔红水溶液对上述案件脾脏组织的石蜡切片进行染色,显微镜下观察肥大细胞脱颗粒及嗜酸性粒细胞。结果过敏性猝死组:过敏性猝死组的脾切片均可看到脱颗粒的肥大细胞及显著增多的嗜酸性粒细胞。非过敏性猝死组:未见肥大细胞脱颗粒现象,部分案例散见的少量嗜酸性粒细胞。结论宝塔红染色效果稳定,受死后变化影响少,可作为过敏性猝死案件的辅助诊断指标。     

豚鼠过敏性休克肺组织中类胰蛋白酶和胃促胰酶的表达

目的观察豚鼠过敏性休克死亡肺组织中类胰蛋白酶和胃促胰酶的表达情况,试图为过敏性休克死亡提供客观的诊断依据。方法健康豚鼠24只,随机均分为实验组和对照组,每组再分死亡即时组、冷藏48h组和冷冻7d组,每组4只。实验组将0.5mL人混合血清用生理盐水1∶10稀释,注射于豚鼠后掌皮内,致敏后3周以人混合血清1mL注入心腔诱发过敏性休克致死;对照组采用生理盐水代替混合血清。提取豚鼠心血及肺组织,应用免疫组化染色和图像分析技术观察类胰蛋白酶和胃促胰酶的表达情况。结果对照组豚鼠肺组织中类胰蛋白酶和胃促胰酶阳性细胞数量较少,分布在小血管和小气管周围。实验组肺组织中类胰蛋白酶和胃促胰酶阳性细胞明显增多,多数细胞形态不规则,阳性染色颗粒脱出肥大细胞并弥散到组织间隙。冷藏48h和冷冻7d的条件下对这两种酶的表达无明显影响。结论过敏性休克致死豚鼠肺组织中类胰蛋白酶和胃促胰酶的表达明显增强,在冷藏48h和冷冻7d内的条件下,可作为过敏性休克死亡的一项诊断依据。     

A fatal case of amniotic fluid embolism with elevation of serum mast cell tryptase

A case of a 40-year-old female who died of amniotic fluid embolism is presented. This case showed typical histological findings of this syndrome. Postmortem serum of this case showed an elevated tryptase level (67.2ng/ml, normal levels <10ng/ml). Tryptase is a neutral protease of mast cells, and an important indicator of mast cell activation and degranulation. Thus, mast cell activation, a central feature of anaphylaxis, may have been involved in the pathogenetic mechanism of this case.     

扫描电镜下缢沟的形态特征

作者用光镜和扫描电镜对縊沟进行对比观察,得出如下结论:(1)扫描电镜下縊沟组织的改变具有较恒定的特征,出血及纤维蛋白检出率远较光镜为高;(2)在光镜下生活反应不明显的生前缢沟,在扫描电镜下其表面及断面均可见红细胞及纤维蛋白形成,并包裹红细胞。縊沟部位胶原纤维之间可见散在大小不等的圆球形脂肪样小滴。缢沟部位肥大细胞的形态改变,有助于生前与死后缢沟的鉴别诊断。     

Immediate anaphylactic death following antibiotics injection: splenic eosinophilia easily revealed by pagoda red stain

The comparison of 4 cases of immediate anaphylactic death following the intramuscular injection of antibiotics (different types of penicillin or cephalosporins) with 4 cases of immediate non-anaphylactic death (induced by different causes) recognized splenic eosinophilia, as the main feature for the differential diagnosis, in agreement with isolated previous studies. The use of a stain (pagoda red) little known and seldom employed in Pathology and in Forensic Medicine, showed the concomitant massive presence (immunohistochemically confirmed) of mast cells and degranulated mast cells, the latter mainly located in splenic sinuses. The whole of our findings led us to consider the spleen as the possible shock organ in man. Waiting for further judgment on our hypothesis, we seized the opportunity to remark the employment of the pagoda red stain when the contemporary demonstration of eosinophils, mast cells and degranulated mast cells is required.     

The effect of ethanol and antabus-antabus-alcohol-reaction on histamin and mast cell. Contents of the lung (author's transl)]

Alcohol--orally given in concentrations from 1 to 4 g/kg body-weight--leads to a reduction of mast cells in the guinea pig lung. At the same time a minor decrease of histamine concentration was observed. The incompatibility reaction with alcohol after disulfiram intake (DAR) shows an additional degranulation oft mast cells of the lungs and decrease of histamine-content. So far, there seems little difference between the influence of disulfiram alone and the DAR. Besides thrombocytes and basophile leucocytes, the mast cells of the lung are responsible for the release of histamine and serotonine during higher alcohol concentrations and alcohol-disulfiram-reactions. We think that the intolerance phenomena of humans after alcohol--f.e. in form of flush-reaction--is at least partly related to the concomitant influence oft mast cell-substances.     

Three cases of suspected hyperthermia with remarkable elevation of serum mast cell tryptase

Tryptase is a neutral protease of human mast cells, and an important indicator of mast cell activation and degranulation in anaphylactic events. The elevation of serum mast cell tryptase (SMCT) is used for postmortem diagnosis of anaphylaxis. We have quantified the SMCT levels of 122 forensic autopsy cases with various causes of death and found only three where the SMCT levels were remarkably elevated, with values of 179, 68.9 and 69.4 ng/ml (normal level <13.5 ng/ml). The three cases were suspected to have suffered from hyperthermia, and the deaths did not seem to be related to causes of death where SMCT levels have been reported to be elevated in some cases. Two cases were patients who had been prescribed long-term neuroleptics or antidepressants, and myoglobin was detected immunohistochemically in the renal tubules of both cases. The other case died of heatstroke. A possible mechanism of hyperthermia in SMCT elevation is discussed.     

Advantage of affinity histochemistry combined with histology to investigate death causes: indications from sample cases

Mast cell histochemistry has been proposed in addition to classic histological methods to estimate the course of traumatic events before and after death. We have addressed the utility of this approach on nine victims of different types of trauma. Sections of wounded skin were stained with hematoxylin and eosin and with fluorescent avidin to tag mast cells. Mast cell numbers were evaluated by both direct and digitalized counts. Intact skin was used as control. The results on mast cells implemented the findings upon hematoxylin and eosin stain and helped to put the wounds and death in chronological sequence. Digitalized morphometry allowed to reduce intra- and inter-observer variation. We conclude that combined histological and histochemical analyses can be of practical use in forensic pathology, that a preliminary setting of the reference values is needed for each laboratory, and that image analysis can be of help for the quantification of the results.     

Eosinophilic Coronary Periarteritis with Arterial Dissection: The Mast Cell Hypothesis

A subset of coronary arterial dissections is associated with eosinophilic coronary periarteritis (ECPA); however, the pathogenesis of the process remains unclear. Mast cells normally reside in coronary arterial adventitia and are known mediators of eosinophilic inflammatory conditions such as type I hypersensitivity reactions. We report two cases in which coronary arterial dissection with ECPA was detected at autopsy. Tryptase, CD68, CD4, CD8, and CD1a immunohistochemical staining was performed to better characterize inflammation. While eosinophils represented a prominent periadventitial inflammatory cell, there were slightly more lymphocytes: CD4/CD8 ratios were within expected reference ranges. There were moderate numbers of macrophages, and few neutrophils or dendritic cells. Numbers of mast cells in dissected versus nondissected sections were compared: adventitial mast cell densities were threefold higher in dissected portions and showed a trend toward increased degranulation. These findings suggest that mast cells may play a role in orchestrating inflammation in cases of ECPA.     

Wrapped to death. Unusual autoerotic death

Despite the large population of New Orleans, including many homosexual and transsexuals, there have been relatively few cases of autoerotic deaths. The case reported here is an interesting one as it includes a bizarre form of autoerotic behavior from the standpoint of the method used. There have been no deaths reported in the literature in which the victim died as a result of jeopardizing himself by enclosing his body into plastic with an airway out of his "cocoon" in the form of a snorkel tube. He was engaged in masturbation when he apparently lost his mouth piece or airway. He attempted to use a knife to cut himself out.     

Mast cell tryptase and hemolysis after trauma

BACKGROUND: We have previously found increased mast cell tryptase in accidental deaths due to trauma, indicating that mast cell degranulation had occurred. The present study was designed to confirm the previous observation and to determine if tryptase release after trauma is acute or delayed. Furthermore, the importance of hemolysis and direct trauma to the mast cells was investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Mast cell tryptase was measured in post-mortem blood from the femoral vein in 27 cases of death from trauma and in 27 control cases by means of a commercially available immunoassay. The trauma cases were further classified into groups with single versus multiple trauma, and groups with short survival time (i.e. death at the scene of the accident) versus longer survival time (death in hospital). In five multi-trauma deaths, blood was sampled locally from the sites of crush injury. RESULTS: The mean value of tryptase in femoral vein blood was 35.6+/-34.6 microg/l in the entire trauma group and 14.7+/-6.5 microg/l in the controls (P<0.005). In bloody liquid sampled from crush injuries, tryptase was substantially elevated in all cases, with a mean of 227+/-146 microg/l. In cases with short survival time, tryptase was significantly higher than in those who died after several hours or days in hospital (P<0.001). No statistically significant difference was seen between multi- and single-trauma cases. A correlation between hemolysis in the samples and elevated tryptase was found only in the trauma cases (P<0.05), but experimentally induced hemolysis in vitro was not found to influence the measurements. CONCLUSION: Mast cell tryptase becomes elevated in trauma deaths and this seems to be ascribable either to direct mechanical injury to tissue mast cells and/or to cell lysis. In patients initially surviving severe injuries, the effects of massive release of histamine and other mast cell mediators might be of importance for treatment strategies and prognosis.     

Development of a simple and non-destructive examination for counterfeit coins using acoustic characteristics

The true incidence of anaphylactic latex reactions and their associated morbidity and mortality remain poorly defined. It is noteworthy that a number of groups of individuals are at risk for anaphylactic reactions to latex during surgical and medical procedures; one of these groups is represented by the obstetric and gynaecologic population. A case of unrecognized first anaphylactic reaction to latex in a pregnant woman patient who underwent a caesarean section is presented. The diagnosis of latex allergy was missed and the following day the woman underwent a surgical re-exploration complicated by fatal cardiovascular arrest. At post-mortem examination, pulmonary mast cells in the bronchial walls and capillary septa were identified and a great number of degranulating mast cells with tryptase-positive material outside the cells was documented. A post-mortem latex-specific IgE test showed a high titre (14.00 U/I). Latex-induced fatal anaphylactic shock was recorded as the cause of death. This case highlights some of the practical difficulties in the initial diagnosis and subsequent investigation of fatal anaphylactic reaction during anaesthesia. Anaphylaxis is often misdiagnosed because many other pathologic conditions may present identical clinical manifestations, so anaphylactic shock must be differentiated from other causes of circulatory collapse. Although latex allergy usually has a delayed onset after the start of the surgery and most often a slow onset too, it should be always suspected if circulatory collapse and respiratory failure occur during surgery, even if the patient does not belong to a risk group; in the presence of identified risk factors for latex allergy a well-founded suspicion must be stronger, leading to an immediate discontinuation of the potential trigger.