The gastric disease of Napoleon Bonaparte: brief report for the bicentenary of Napoleon's death on St. Helena in 1821.

Autor: Lugli A; Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 31, 3008, Bern, Switzerland. alessandro.lugli@pathology.unibe.ch., Carneiro F; Centro Hospitalar Universitario de São João/Medical Faculty of Porto, Porto, Portugal.; Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto/i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal., Dawson H; Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 31, 3008, Bern, Switzerland., Fléjou JF; Département de Pathologie, Cerbapath, Paris, France., Kirsch R; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., van der Post RS; Department of Pathology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands., Vieth M; Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Bayreuth Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany., Svrcek M; Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Service d'Anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, Paris, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology [Virchows Arch] 2021 Nov; Vol. 479 (5), pp. 1055-1060. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 04.
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-021-03061-1
Abstrakt: After the defeat at the battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was sent into exile to the Island of St. Helena where he died 6 years later on May 5, 1821. One day after his death, Napoleon's personal physician, Dr. Francesco Antommarchi, performed the autopsy in the presence of Napoleon's exile companions and the British medical doctors. Two hundred years later, mysteries still surround the cause of his death and different hypotheses have been postulated in the medical and historical literature. The main reasons seem to be the presence of several autopsy reports, their interpretation and perhaps the greed for thrill and mystery. Therefore, for the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, an international consortium of gastrointestinal pathologists assembled to analyse Napoleon's autopsy reports based on the level of medical evidence and to investigate if the autopsy reports really do not allow a final statement.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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