Dr. Darin Wolfe MD, Medical Examiner

04/14/2026

The in gets larger…and increases the risk of acute heart failure.

04/13/2026

AVMs—arteriovenous malformations—can be large and quite dangerous to the patient if they hemorrhage. My experience is that they are not common at autopsy; I’ve only had a couple of cases in my entire career. One of the scariest things about this entity is that sometimes you don’t even know you have it until it’s too late. But the bulk of the cases produce some symptoms which allows the patient to get scanned and the entity discovered. This is an explanation of why they aren’t seen that commonly as a cause of sudden death.

: Operative considerations for microsurgical resection of cortical high-grade brain arteriovenous malformations.

https://thejns.org/view/journals/j-neurosurg/aop/article-10.3171-2025.9.JNS25883/article-10.3171-2025.9.JNS25883.xml

04/12/2026

The determination of death in cases just depends on the actual cause and whether or not trauma is present. Obviously, this is a very simplistic answer because there are entire books written on how to determine death in these type cases.

04/11/2026

Video about diagnosing at . The truth is we don’t diagnose “seizure” as much as we rule out other conditions and combine our findings with the circumstances and scene findings.
(Video Repost).

04/11/2026

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04/10/2026

Not my original photo, but I saw this on Instagram (you can see the original poster for proper credit). Obviously this civil war soldier sustained a non-survivable wound, certainly an instantaneous death with this kind of damage. The projectile entered right at the right temporal bone, which can be quite thin! Only about 2 millimeters in some areas (about twice the thickness of an average thumbnail).

04/10/2026

What does chronic smoking look like at autopsy?

04/10/2026

Situs inversus probably most popular answer here. Video from 2022.

04/03/2026

Don’t think your is just indigestion! It could be a .

04/03/2026

So many of my sudden death cases are men who delayed going to the doctor despite the urging of their wife/gf.

03/31/2026

The real explanation of why the Charlie Kirk bullet “didn’t match”: