Comparison of Internal Organ Weights in Sudden Cardiovascular System Autopsy Cases with Others

Abstract

Background: Diagnosis of acute myocardial ischemia death. However, according to the researcher's observation, corpses that die suddenly from cardiovascular disease often have a much higher weight of internal organs, such as lung weight, than those that die from other causes.

Objective: To correlate and compare the internal organ weight of a group of people who died suddenly from cardiovascular disease, and those who died from other causes. It helps to make diagnostics faster and more accurate.

Method: Retrospective analytic research combined with a case-control study using data from autopsy reports at Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital. During the period from 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2025, the research criteria were applied without randomization, then divided into samples and control groups, and then the data were analyzed separately by gender. Explain the results using descriptive statistics and use an independent T-test.

Results: 1. The average age of body weight, body weight, and internal organ weight, including heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys, and the average weight of internal organs to body weight of internal organs in the group that died from cardiovascular disease was higher than that of the group that died from other causes, both male and female. 2. In males, the average body weight, total organ weight, and average organ weight per body weight were significantly higher than those in the group that died from other causes (p ≤0.05), but in females, the average weights of the heart, liver, and spleen were significantly higher than those that died from other causes (p ≤0.05). 

Conclusion: Average Visceral Weight to Body Weight. In the cardiovascular disease group, it was significantly higher than the group of deaths from other causes