54y · Male·hypoglycaemic encephalopathy complicating multiple injuries in a man with chroni…
James Williamson, a 54-year-old man with diabetes, chronic lung disease, and ischaemic heart disease, died from hypoglycaemic encephalopathy following multiple traumatic i…
63y · Male·pulmonary emphysema
Stanley McIntyre, a 63-year-old man with severe treatment-resistant schizophrenia, died from pulmonary emphasema on 23 June 2021 while subject to a Psychi…
74y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease and coronary atherosclerosis
Mr Robert Howlett, a 74-year-old man with extensive comorbidities including chronic lung disease, hypertension and severe hearing disability, died of ischaemic heart disease and coronary atheroscl…
63y · Male·respiratory failure in a man with lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary dis…
Stephen Craig Solly, aged 63, died from respiratory failure due to advanced lung cancer, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis while an involuntary psychiatric patient at Graylands Hospital. He had…
70y · Male·chronic obstructive lung disease with emphysema on a background of advanced vasc…
Raymond Abbott, a 70-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, vascular dementia, opioid addiction and alcohol abuse, died of COPD with emphysema at a resid…
0y · Male·Scimitar syndrome
An 11-week-old term infant (Baby JDU) died from Scimitar syndrome, a rare congenital heart and lung disorder with bilateral complications including pulmonary hypoplasia, venous obstruction, and severe pulmon…
79y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease
John Angeles, aged 79, died of ischaemic heart disease while serving a life sentence for murder. He had severe triple-vessel coronary disease, chronic lung dise…
44y · Female·multi-organ failure and polypharmaceutical overdose on a background of severe ch…
…Rose Kartinyeri, aged 44, died from multi-organ failure and polypharmaceutical overdose on a background of severe COPD. She had a long history of substance abuse, non-compliance with treatment, and hospital presentations…
75y · Male·cerebral metastatic malignancy (lung cancer with brain metastases)
Kenneth Ballard, aged 75, died in prison custody from cerebral metastatic lung cancer. He had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic lymphoma in 2012 and managed at Mount Gambier Prison…
66y · Male·Palliative treatment (withdrawal of life-sustaining medication and oxygen) follo…
…tationary truck at a service station on 30 September 2014, sustaining serious leg injuries. He had terminal lung cancer (non-operable bronchogenic carcinoma), severe COPD, and bronchiectasis—comorbidities that would have…
60y · Male·Complications of chronic lung disease (emphysema, foreign body giant cell reacti…
A 60-year-old man with severe emphysema, atherosclerotic coronary disease, and secondary pulmonary hypertension died at home. He had a h…
7y · Female·respiratory failure from severe scoliosis due to Murray Valley encephalitis
Ruby Blitner died from respiratory failure secondary to severe scoliosis caused by Murray Valley encephalitis acquired at age two. Her clinical course involved progressi…
61y · Female·Diffuse alveolar damage in a woman with restrictive lung disease following catar…
A 61-year-old woman with severe restrictive lung disease, obesity, cardiac failure, and diabetes underwent cataract surgery at a private d…
70y · Male·organising diffuse alveolar damage in the setting of hypertensive heart disease,…
… prison custody from organising diffuse alveolar damage in the setting of pre-existing hypertensive heart disease, right ventricular hypertrophy, coronary artery atherosclerosis, and COPD. He presented on 18 April 2023 …
66y · Male·End stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
…aranoid schizophrenia and anxiety. In September 2012, he was admitted with acute COPD exacerbation causing severe respiratory failure and hypoxemia. After assessment by a respiratory physician in November 2012, a palliat…
8y · Male·prematurity-associated lung and bowel disease
…niel Wright was a premature infant (born at 24 weeks) with multiple complex medical needs including chronic lung disease, developmental delay, and failure to thrive. He died aged eight months from prematurity-associated …
68y · Male·bronchopneumonia in a man with carcinoma in the lung and chronic obstructive pul…
Frank Mikhail, a 68-year-old prisoner with severe COPD, presented to St John of God Hospital on 29 January 2023 with haemoptysis and was discharged without …
64y · Male·bronchopneumonia and sepsis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a man …
… 64-year-old sentenced prisoner, died from bronchopneumonia and sepsis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema) in the setting of advanced chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and heart failure. Key clinical l…
39y · Male·Complications arising from widely disseminated primary pulmonary small cell carc…
A 39-year-old male inmate died from complications of widely disseminated small cell lung cancer with hepatitis C cirrhosis. He presented with acute psychosis and catatonia in December 2018, receiv…
85y · Female·sepsis, with aspiration pneumonitis being an antecedent cause. Iatrogenic injury…
…ngong Private Hospital for convalescence, died from sepsis with aspiration pneumonitis following iatrogenic lung injury. She developed severe malnutrition and electrolyte disturbances after refusing oral intake from hosp…
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