[sumo] News on Tokitsukaze beya

[Barbara]

Where did they report it? It is not online anywhere at Yomiuri Online.

Google cannot find a single article anywhere combining the terms 
Tokitaizan and either Pulmonary or Embolism.

Nor can Google find a single instance of "CT" and "Tokitaizan".

Did you read this in the printed page?  If so, why is it that no other 
sources seem to be acknowledging it?

Sorry to put you on the spot, but I see no sign that such an autopsy 
result has been reported.

If death was due to pulmonary embolism, then it would be accidental in 
the sense that it could not have been foreseen.  Many things can cause a 
blood clot in the veins, including sitting in one place too long, such 
as when one plays video games for 20 hours straight.  I don't believe 
you could accurately describe the death as "shock".  If it is a 
Pulmonary Embolism, the sumo stable is probably off the hook, though 
they might still be criticized for the cigarette burns.

In the media,
Mainichi says:
"Professional sumo wrestler Tokitaizan died from heart failure after he 
collapsed during practice."

On the 29th Mainichi says:" The cause of the sudden death of a sumo 
wrestler during practice here earlier this week is likely to be shock 
caused by multiple injuries"

Amazingly, Reuters and Scotsman.com says "Teenage sumo wrestler dies 
after heart attack" which is of course untrue.

Barbara Murasakihana

Achim Pawelczyk wrote:
> Barbara schrieb:
>>
>> It's just a guess on my part, but it sounds a bit like pulmonary 
>> embolism. That can happen if a large blood clot forms in a vein, such 
>> as the legs, then breaks free and travels to the lungs.  Repeated 
>> injuries might cause deep vein ruptures and/or thrombosis.  See 
>> http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec04/ch046/ch046a.html
>> I would think that an autopsy could confirm it so that there would be 
>> no doubt.  I am not a doctor.
> 
> Actually that is what the Yomiuri shimbun had reported on the 28th as 
> the cause of death, confirmed by a CT scan etc.
> It looks to me like the autopsy after that only added a possible reason 
> for that direct cause of death, when stating not more than this:
> possibility of a shock by multiple injuries being connected/leading to 
> his death.
> 
> -- 
> Akinomaki