G. Rousseau, N. Bergerat, G. Drevin, P. Reynier and N. Jousset (2018). [Thanatobiochemistry: post mortem study of the vitreous humor for the diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis death]. Annales de biologie clinique, 76(3), 245-250. https://doi.org/10.1684/abc.2018.1348

PubMed 29862967

[Abstract]
Thanatobiochemistry refers to a post mortem study of biochemical parameters enabling to shed light on a cause of death. This discipline shines when suspected lethal pathology doesn't have any noticeable macroscopic or microscopic features such as diabetic ketoacidosis. We relate the case of fourty-five years old patient followed-up for type I diabetes mellitus, discovered dead at home, for which only post mortem biochemical exploration of vitreous humor allowed to determine the cause of death by diabetic ketoacidosis.