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Title: El humor vítreo como fluido biológico de importancia clínica en ciencias forenses
Other Titles: Vitreous humour as a biofluid of clinical importance in forensic sciences
Humor vítreo como fluido biológico de importância clínica nas ciências forenses
Keywords: Cuerpo vítreo
Toxicología
Medicina legal
Drogas de abuso
Cambios post mortem
Ciencias forenses
Vitreous body
Toxicology
Legal medicine
Abuse drugs
Postmortem changes
Forensic
Corpo vítreo
Mudanças post mortem
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Federación Bioquímica de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Citation: MONTEFUSCO-PEREIRA, C. V.; PINTO, L. de M. A. El humor vítreo como fluido biológico de importancia clínica en ciencias forenses. Acta bioquímica clínica latinoamericana, La Plata, v. 50, n. 1, p. 27-35, 2016.
Abstract: The vitreous humor, body or fluid is the clear gel that fills the vitreous chamber or posterior chamber of the eyeball, whose functions are to give volume to the eye, serve as retina support and maintain its transparency to allow light beams to reach the retina. This study addresses the vitreous humor as an important sample for clinical biochemistry, pointing out its value for forensic sciences. The vitreous humor is a mandatory sample in cases of suspected, unexplained or violent deaths and its location gives a sterile medium for the postmortem confirmation of alcohol intake. It plays a role in the measurement of drugs, estimation of postmortem interval, and definition of diabetes, dehydration and renal failure. Factors such as drug postmortem diffusion in the vitreous humour coming from the brain, along with factors of the analytical method such asthe collection process, calibration and statistical processing of data, make it difficult to interpret and add more variables to the cases investigated. HV use should be promoted in countries like Brazil and in Latin America, which possess trained professionals to address and use this biological sample, but who do not work with it frequently.
URI: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/31896
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