Sign up for email alert when new content gets added: Sign up
Neelam Shrivastava
Gandhi Medical College, India
ScientificTracks Abstracts: Clin Pharmacol Toxicol Res
One of the causes, for suicide in young and unmarried females is illegal relationship which turns into pregnancy and due to failure of relationship to hide the shameful condition and guilty, female commits suicide. Sometimes during autopsy, misdiagnosis of pregnancy cause embarrassing condition to parents and on the other side, if finding is not detected which leads escape of accused from punishment. Therefore, an accurate test of pregnancy is essential. In prevailing practice, size of uterus and corpus luteum is compared with non pregnant uterus for diagnosis of pregnancy but in early pregnancy, size of uterus and corpus luteum doesn’t increase considerably and findings usually missed.
The proposed method is easiest and confirmatory test for the same which is done by examining urine or blood serum for HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) of deceased by HCG strip.
Neelam Shrivastava has completed MBBS in 1988 from Indore University, India and LLB from Bhopal University, India in 1999. She has worked in Public Health department as Assistant Surgeon till 1996 and since last 22 years, she is working as a Senior Medical Officer in Medico Legal Institute, Gandhi Medical College, India. There she has performed more than 5000 autopsies of different nature and given expert opinion. She has also presented five international papers.
