Publications by authors named "Amarantha D Ropmay"
Background A medicolegal or forensic autopsy is performed on the instructions of the legal authority responsible for the investigation of sudden, suspicious, obscure, unnatural, litigious, or criminal deaths. Although the purpose and procedure of a medicolegal autopsy differ from those of a pathological autopsy, at times, they overlap. Usually, histopathological examination (HPE) is required in sudden deaths, where the cause of the death is not known or not apparent at gross autopsy.
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- ABH antigens on red blood cells determine blood types (A, B, AB, O) and are also present in various body fluids; individuals with these antigens in their fluids are known as secretors.
- A study in Shillong, India, assessed salivary secretor status in 250 healthy adults, revealing a 57.2% prevalence, with notable trends linked to age, sex, tribe, and blood groups.
- Findings highlight the forensic potential of saliva in identifying blood groups, which can assist in legal matters related to paternity, immigration, and disaster victim identification, as it can be more readily available than blood samples.
Introduction: Medico-legal issues are handled by every registered medical practitioner in their day-to-day medical practice but if they are not well versed with rules of managing such cases and laws behind them, they often land into criticism and are distressed at the courts while disposing of the cases.
Objective: To assess the knowledge of registered medical practitioners in Meghalaya regarding the management of medico-legal cases in day-to-day medical practices.
Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study, conducted at the Department of Forensic Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) for 6 months.
Introduction The stature of an individual is an important parameter for establishing identification. The height of an individual can be indirectly estimated from different parts of the skeleton and such measurements are of great use in forensic science, anatomy, and anthropometry. This study was an attempt to formulate a linear regression equation for estimation of stature by measuring the ulnar length in the living adult Khasi population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEstimation of time since death (TSD) is an important aspect of forensic medicine. Methods used so far are subjective and have human errors. Corneal opacity images using software to analyze the red, green, and blue (RGB) components of corneal color against the TSD may prove to be an objective method.
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