726 results for “schizophrenia”
50y · Male·coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardiac arrhythmia
Ejub Mehinovic, a 50-year-old man with treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia managed on clozapine, died from coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardiac arrhythmi…
72y · Male·ischaemic heart disease due to right coronary artery thrombus and unstable plaqu…
Michael Richard Meerman, a 72-year-old man with schizophrenia and diabetes, died of ischaemic heart disease due to right coronary artery thrombosis. He was subject …
22y · Male·neck compression due to hanging
A 22-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia died by hanging while under guardianship with special powers of detention in supported independent liv…
76y · Female·infective exacerbation of chronic congestive cardiac failure due to Respiratory …
…cytial Virus. She presented with multifactorial respiratory distress complicated by advanced dementia, schizophrenia, and behavioural disturbance. She was placed on an Inpatient Treatment Order due to risk to self and o…
25y · Male·unable to determine
Tyrone Frederick MacQueen disappeared on 1 July 1994 at age 25. He had chronic schizophrenia with poor medication compliance, recent psychiatric hospitalization, expressed suicidal ideation, self…
35y · Male·Complications of morbid obesity in a man with cardiomegaly and schizophrenia
Alexander McCulloch, a 35-year-old man with schizophrenia, morbid obesity (BMI 45), and cardiomegaly, was found dead in bed. Autopsy attributed death to complic…
60y · Male·Hypertrophy of the heart
A 60-year-old man with longstanding schizophrenia and severe emphysema died at a mental health facility from cardiac hypertrophy (heart weight 730g, nor…
33y · Male·Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
Baher Kondos, a 33-year-old man with epilepsy, intellectual disability, and schizophrenia, died suddenly at his supported accommodation facility. He was found unresponsive in bed and despite C…
18y · Male·asphyxia due to hanging
An 18-year-old man with a long history of mental health difficulties including depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder died by hanging. He had made previous suicide threats and had been admitted to p…
89y · Female·multi-organ failure on a background of urinary sepsis
…ed of multi-organ failure secondary to urinary sepsis at a nursing home. She had longstanding paranoid schizophrenia and was subject to a guardianship order. This inquest was mandatory because her death occurred while u…
42y · Male·Upper airway obstruction (choking) in an obese man with atherosclerotic heart di…
Andre Walter Bond, a 42-year-old man with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and severe obesity, died from upper airway obstruction…
30y · Male·neck compression
Mohamed Omar, a 30-year-old man with schizophrenia, died in Melbourne Assessment Prison on 25 June 2017 from neck compression while on remand. He had a h…
60y · Male·sepsis/leg cellulitis with peripheral oedema and congestive cardiac failure in t…
Andrew Leader, a 60-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, emphysema, COPD, chronic hyponatraemia, and heart failure, died of sepsis from leg cellulitis with pe…
Unknown·Deaths from injuries sustained in a mass stabbing attack
…ck at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April 2024. The perpetrator, Joel Cauchi, had treatment-resistant schizophrenia and had ceased antipsychotic medication. Key clinical findings identified serious deficiencies in psyc…
37y · Male·Combined effects of presumed heavy metal poisoning from an unknown material and …
A 37-year-old man with schizophrenia died between 14–18 August 2020 in bushland near Whiteman Creek NSW, from presumed heavy metal poisonin…
35y · Male·hyponatraemia due to excessive consumption of water, against a background of psy…
Trevor Samuel, a 35-year-old Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and psychogenic polydipsia, died in custody from hyponatraemia following excessive water consumption. …
47y · Female·Pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis
Fatima Lay, a 47-year-old woman with schizophrenia and developmental disability living in supported residential accommodation, died from pulmonary thromb…
39y · Male·cardiomegaly
…cardiomegaly while detained under the Mental Health Act at Lyell McEwin Health Service. He had chronic schizophrenia managed with antipsychotics and was morbidly obese (BMI 46). His death was unexpected as he had no pri…
37y · Male·unascertained
Cyril Levitsky disappeared from Callan Park Hospital in 1970 while under treatment for schizophrenia. He was never found, though an unidentified male body discovered nearby in December 1970 may have been…
53y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
John Stephen Passmore, a 53-year-old man with severe treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia, died by suicide while on community leave from psychiatric hospital. He had been an involuntary patien…
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