Physician

Pathology

Cyril Wecht works in the field of Pathology. He graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Cyril H. Wecht, MD has written publications. He has 82 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'The right to die and physician-assisted suicide medical, legal, and ethical aspects (Part I).'

Publications

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• Nursing home deaths which fall under the jurisdiction of the coroner: an 11-year retrospective study.
• Death rates and causes of death after bariatric surgery for Pennsylvania residents, 1995 to 2004.
• Dead bodies, disasters, and the myths about them: is public health law misinformed?
• Infant death due to air embolism from peripheral venous infusion.
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a national football league player: part II.
• Accurately assessing elderly fall deaths using hospital discharge and vital statistics data.
• Cause of death among elder homicide victims: a 10-year medical examiner review.
• Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in an exhumed decomposed brain after twenty months of burial in a deep grave.
• A neuroforensic analysis of the wounds of president John F. Kennedy: part 2--a study of the available evidence, eyewitness correlations, analysis, and conclusions.
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player.
• Suicides following bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity.
• The history of legal medicine.
• Age-based factors in femicide.
• Response to the National Association of Medical Examiners position paper on the certification of cocaine-related deaths.
• Cardiac concussion: definition, differential diagnosis, and cases presentation and the legal ramification of a misdiagnosis.
• Postbariatric surgery deaths, which fall under the jurisdiction of the coroner.
• Death by chainsaw: fatal kickback injuries to the neck.
• Deaths among criminal suspects, law enforcement officers, civilians, and prison inmates: a coroner-based study.
• Death during transforaminal epidural steroid nerve root block (C7) due to perforation of the left vertebral artery.
• Pathology of sudden death during recreational sports activity.
• Kawasaki disease: a review of pathologic features of stage IV disease and two cases of sudden death among asymptotic young adults.
• A review of nail gun suicides and an atypical case report.
• Public health law and disaster medicine: understanding the legal environment.
• Medical malpractice suits and autopsies.
• Four views of organ transplants. Attorney describes current efforts to establish uniform guidelines.
• Toluene fatality from glue sniffing.
• Codeine fatality from cough syrup.
• A critique of the medical aspects of the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy.
• Medical evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• Pathologist''s view of JFK autopsy: an unsolved case. Ninth anniversary of assassination.
• The medical evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• Coronary care units: legal considerations.
• Suicide with plastic bag and ethyl ether.
• Death from hydrogen-sulphide fumes.
• Fatal benzene exposure by glue-sniffing.
• Murder in Taiwan.
• Homicide investigation--importance of scene visit by forensic pathologist.
• Considerations and potential pitfalls in AIDS lab testing.
• Considerations and potential pitfalls in lab test of AIDS.
• Autopsies.
• The role of the forensic pathologist in pediatric pathology.
• The role of the forensic scientist in civil and criminal litigation.
• The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA).
• Proposal to change official governmental medicolegal death scene investigations, New York City.
• Update on AIDS--medical, legal, and societal concerns.
• Medicolegal problems in determining cause of death in motor vehicle accidents.
• The interfaces of law and medicine.
• Conflagration in an ambulance oxygen system.
• Medical, legal, and moral considerations in human experiments involving minors and incompetent adults.
• A comparison of two abortion-related legal inquiries.
• Editorial: The medical malpractice crisis.
• Sounding board. Forensic pathology - a specialty in trouble.
• Human experimentation and clinical investigation--legal and ethical considerations.
• The swine flu immunization program: scientific venture or political folly?
• Patient access to medical records: yea or nay?
• Legal medicine.
• Postmortem on Elvis Presley won''t die.
• A question of freedom.
• Medical expert testimony--every doctor''s concern.
• The "missing" investigation of the Legionnaires'' Disease.
• The "missing" investigation of Legionnaires'' disease.
• Clinical cause of death and autopsy results.
• Simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome: a case report.
• Simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome: a proposed definition and worldwide review of cases.
• The right to die and physician-assisted suicide: medical, legal, and ethical aspects (Part II).
• Autopsy rates and diagnosis.
• Diagnostic tests--a source of potential malpractice lawsuits.
• The right to die and physician-assisted suicide medical, legal, and ethical aspects (Part I).
• Sudden death in an adolescent boy due to a colloid cyst of the third ventricle.
• Use and abuse of medicolegal and forensic scientific expert testimony in the courtroom.
• JFK revisited.
• The battered child syndrome: a forensic pathologist's viewpoint.
• The battered child syndrome--a forensic pathologist's viewpoint.
• Pathologist's role in product-related deaths.
• Medical-legal aspects of perinatal and surgical infections.
• Fatal mercuric chloride ingestion.
• The risk of body packing: a case of a fatal cocaine overdose.
• A case of a death by explosives: the keys to a proper investigation.
• Fatal constriction of an 8-year-old child by her parents'' pet python: a call for amendment to existing laws on the ownership of exotic wildlife to protect children fr...
• EFFECT ON THE LIVER OF LONG-TERM TRANQUILIZING MEDICATION.
• Forensic antiepileptic drug levels in autopsy cases of epilepsy.

Schools

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• University of Pittsburgh Main Campus

• St Francis Genl Hospital

• Maxwell Afb Hospital

• Pittsburgh Va Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Forensic Pathology
• Pathology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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