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The left ventricle was slightly hypertrophied, with mitral stenosis and fusion of the cusps. Toxicologists have quantified EA in virtually all bodily organs, tissues, and secretions. J Stud Alcohol 48, 212–219. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 7, 112–114. Kane AB, Kumar V (1999) Environmental and nutritional pathology. Am J For Med Path 17, 343–346. High blood alcohol levels may develop during putrefaction and levels up to 0.200% do not necessarily indicate that alcohol was imbibed before death. The post-mortem findings are minimal, indefinite or no positive findings at all. Identification of chronic excessive alcohol consumption in living and deceased individuals is a fundamental task in forensic pathology. In Jansson B, Jornvali H, Rydberg U, Terenius L, Vallee BL, eds., Toward a molecular basis of alcohol use and abuse. Lawyers and Judges Publishing Co. Inc., Tucson, AZ, pp. We reviewed publications in which these markers have been applied to autopsy material. 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