[sumo] News on Tokitsukaze beya

[Achim Pawelczyk]

Barbara schrieb:
> The article you pointed out says:
> "Shiin wa kyoketsusei shinshikkan datta."
> 
> That translates as "The cause of death was cardiac ischemia." Cardiac 
> ischemia means that blood flow to the heart muscle is reduced. Not 
> through the heart but rather to the heart muscle itself.  Usually that 
> is caused by blockage of the cardiac arteries due to arteriosclerosis or 
> calcification or less often, a blood clot.
> 
> Pulmonary embolism is totally different.  The blockage is in the lungs, 
> it is always a blood clot, and it is in the veins not the arteries.

Thanks for that detailed explanation.
Not a doctor but certainly you're an expert - my medical knowledge in
English is not better than that in Japanese. It may also not be wise to
let me operate any medical device.

When I read the article first (after reading the autopsy reports) I only
got the impression that a blood clot must have blocked the heart - the
difference to pulmonary embolism was beyond my perception.

> Later in the article it mentions CT scan but it seems to imply that the 
> part of the body being scanned was the arms, shoulders, and head, to 
> verify that there was no broken bones.  That led to a preliminary 
> statement that death was due to a disease of some kind. The type of CT 
> unit being used might have been one of the "sports medicine" type which 
> are often a portable unit, a rotating C-shaped device. Such a device 
> would be good for diagnosing fractures.

The article, while being more detailed than those of other sources,
still leaves much to speculation. I had left it out of earlier posts
because it seemed to be kind of outdated and I can't explain (or tell
apart) the medical conditions.
The examination was apparently performed at the hospital Saito was
brought to first, not the Niigata university hospital.
The article only says that the many visible injuries were seen as from
keiko, CT scan and other examinations led to the result that death was
not caused by outward injuries but by illness.
The condition named above being that or is there more illness implied ?

Do you think the so far only vaguely reported autopsy results can be
seen as only an addition, still leaving that first call of cardiac
ischemia valid ?

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Akinomaki