direct cause of death

Ground movement during an earthquake is seldom the direct cause of death or injury.

Confirmed as novel flu and the direct cause of death was ischemic heart disease.

Although he was still being treated for lung cancer, the direct cause of death was pneumonia.

His direct cause of death was acute pneumonia.

It said, "The number of cases in which methadone has been documented as the sole direct cause of death is very small."

L. donovani itself is not usually the direct cause of death in kala-azar sufferers, however.

It can be added that the effects include violent convulsions and that the direct cause of death is respiratory failure.

This method also makes the direct cause of death difficult to trace if the bag and gas canister are removed before the death is reported.

Whilst anaemia was not a direct cause of death, it would have made sufferers weak and vulnerable to other diseases.

Forty-two cases were confirmed as having a link with mephedrone, although none had given the drug as the direct cause of death.

Her direct cause of death was subarachnoid bleeding by using respirator and external ventricular assist device.

Pulmonary contusion is thought to be the direct cause of death in a quarter to a half of people with polytrauma who die.

While his years of alcohol and cocaine abuse were not the direct cause of death, they certainly did not help his condition.

Dr. Mitchell Cairo, her oncologist, said that the direct cause of death was cardiac and respiratory failure.

Regardless of the direct cause of death, Mr. Santulli said, the robber will be held responsible.

His direct cause of death was Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).

Riedel's direct cause of death was cardiac insufficiency due to long time opiate drugs abuse (especially 'compote', the Polish heroin).

Infections contributed to the deaths of 88,100 of those patients, and experts say infection was the direct cause of death in perhaps a quarter of the cases.

Her direct cause of death was MODS caused by high lethality catastrophic group A streptococcal infection.

Between 1970 and October 2006, there have been 8 instances where entanglements have been the direct cause of death of North Atlantic right whales.

Autopsy allows you to exactly determine the structure of comorbidity and the direct cause of death of each patient independent of his/her age, gender and gender specific characteristics.

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues determined that 83 people died; however, it was not possible to determine whether the experiments were the direct cause of death.

While not the direct cause of death, this plastic causes physiological stress and causes the chick to feel full during feedings, reducing its food intake and the chances of survival.

In recent interviews, physicians said that new approaches are badly needed for treating pneumocystic carinii pneumonia, which strikes a majority of AIDS patients and is the major direct cause of death.

But the direct cause of death has yet to be determined, Dr. Contin said, because of the presence of certain abnormalities in an artery feeding Jackson's heart and "very small scars in the muscle of the heart."