What does this Cause of Death mean? (heart, muscle, medical)

[plmokn]

Disease or Condition Directly Leading to Death:

Toxic Myocarditis

Antecedent Causes:

Adhesive Pericarditis
Post Lobectomy right upper & right lower lobes.

[Nomadicus]

Toxic Myocarditis

A good place to start reading.

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by plmokn

Disease or Condition Directly Leading to Death:

Toxic Myocarditis

Antecedent Causes:

Adhesive Pericarditis
Post Lobectomy right upper & right lower lobes.

It means the patient had inflammation of the heart muscle due to either environmental chemicals or drugs (toxins are poisons).

They also had dense fibrous tissue surrounding the heart (the pericardium is the tissue that encloses/surrounds the heart).

[plmokn]

Originally Posted by Nomadicus

Toxic Myocarditis

A good place to start reading.

OK I read it.

What does it mean? What is the common name for this cause of death? Heart attack? Poisoning? What?

[plmokn]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

It means the patient had inflammation of the heart muscle due to either environmental chemicals or drugs (toxins are poisons).

They also had dense fibrous tissue surrounding the heart (the pericardium is the tissue that encloses/surrounds the heart).

Is there a common name for this? Or, is it so general, we really can't say. Is it a cause of death that could have several common causes?

What about the "Post Lobectomy right upper & right lower lobes" part?

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by plmokn

OK I read it.

What does it mean? What is the common name for this cause of death? Heart attack? Poisoning? What?

It means the person likely died of heart failure

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by plmokn

Is there a common name for this? Or, is it so general, we really can't say. Is it a cause of death that could have several common causes?

What about the "Post Lobectomy right upper & right lower lobes" part?

Yeah, like I said, "heart failure".

The post lobectomy ect is just the location of the adhesions in the pericardia I believe.

Was this someone you knew plmokn?

[plmokn]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

It means the person likely died of heart failure

What does "Post Lobectomy right upper & right lower lobes" mean? Is it relevant?

(I am not a medical person and even using the internet, the terminology is foreign to me.)

[plmokn]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

Yeah, like I said, "heart failure".

The post lobectomy ect is just the location of the adhesions in the pericardia I believe.

Was this someone you knew plmokn?

I looked up "pericardia" and it is something to do with " the fibroserous sac enclosing the heart and the roots of the great vessels"

It was my mom's first husband (not my dad). I came across his death certificate.

[plmokn]

The guy was only 26 years old. This was 1951. He had TB. (Picked it up in a POW camp in Germany.)

Might TB be related to the cause of death? TB is lungs though. That's why this is confusing to me.