INCIDENCE OF CARDIOSCLEROSIS IN FORENSIC AUTOPSY PRACTICE

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in people around the world. One of the chronic ischemic heart diseases is cardiosclerosis, which has recently become more common in many people and is attracting attention as a rejuvenating pathology. Cardiosclerosis is a pathology of the heart muscle tissue, characterized by the proliferation of connective tissue in the myocardium. Cardiosclerosis is a pathology caused by coronary atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease, myocarditis of various origins and myocardial dystrophy. For this, a histopathological examination of the tissue of the cardiac myocardium is carried out according to the materials obtained during the autopsy of the corpses of patients who died from various diseases. The aim of the study is to supplement data on cardiac pathologies.