Obesity: The Post Mortem Page #2

Genre: Documentary
 
IMDB:
7.7
Year:
2016
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and drank minimal alcohol.

But what will her body go on to reveal

about the way that she died?

[Michael] This lady has died

of heart disease,

which is one of the things that is

associated with obesity.

And interestingly already in this lady,

weve got signs of heart failure,

because if I press here,

particularly on this side,

you can see this dimpling there

and thats because theres youve

got too much fluid,

and thats the side effect

of heart failure.

[Vinette] The other obvious external

damage to our donor

are the blisters on her skin.

They are one of the earliest signs of her

body decomposing after death

and they're particularly noticeable

on larger bodies.

But they're not what Mike and Carla

are focusing on.

The most important thing about this lady

is that the obesity

that shes got is centred on her abdomen.

So this lady is carrying a lot of weight

around her tummy,

that's associated with more

of the complications

than if somebody weighs the same,

but they carry their weight

around the bottom and around the thighs.

So thats less associated

with complications,

thats more associated with complications.

So we can see the distribution of the fats

from the external exam,

but once we actually get inside,

well see more of how that has affected

the inside of her body,

and her internal organs as well.

[Michael] When we open this lady,

there may be other findings

that are less easy to diagnose

before somebody has died,

that wont have killed her,

but are examples of problems

that can get worse and lead to illness

and death in other people.

So we may find some of those, we may not.

[Vinette] To uncover if there are deadly

medical truths

lying beneath the skin,

Carla must first cut open the body.

The incision is a large and deep

single vertical cut,

beginning at the super sternal notch

at the base of the neck

and ending at the top of the pubis.

Its a skill that requires both great

precision and intense concentration

especially performed on someone

with so much fat.

[Carla] So what I can feel

at the moment is an

awful lot of yellow, very sort of greasy,

fatty tissue,

which is quite a thick layer

in a body this size.

I'm reflecting the skin back

from the rib cage here,

and what that means is I am just kind of

loosening it away with the muscle

to give me a bit of room to

manoeuvre within the body.

What we seem to have here

is a breast implant.

This is an incidental find.

Sometimes when we do post-mortems,

its not just about

what were expecting to find,

it's incidental.

There is a very large amount of fat here.

And the reason it makes it so difficult

is it actually is greasy,

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