Forensic Medicine

The research on the department of forensic medicine consists of four PhD projects and a few separate studies performed in collaboration with other universities. Currently running PhD projects:

• Consequences of Abuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS)
  • This Ph.D. project aims to identify cardiac changes and testicular changes in deceased AAS users.
• Development of a model to assess the post-mortem interval (time between death and discovery)
  • A forensic death investigation must answer three questions: When did the person die? What was the cause of death? What was the manner of death ?
• Diagnosis of infant abuse
  • In recent years, the scientific evidence for previously established views regarding certain findings diagnostic value for infant abuse has been questioned. 

Collaboration projects: In collaboration with KI studies of drug-related death are performed;

• Development and risk factors
  • More than 95% of all deaths recorded as drug-related in official death statistics are undergoing forensic autopsy. 
• A study that examines the hypothesis that intake of AAS may lead to an increased number of heart cell.
  • There is strong evidence of an increased risk for cardiac hypertrophy in users of AAS.

• Testicular changes in heroin addicts

  • In collaboration with the Department of Forensic Medicine in Budapest and Semmelweis University testicular changes among heroin addicts are studied.