Paltauff Hemorrhage

 

Drowning 

Fresh Water Drowning/Sea Water Drowning 

Fresh Water Drowning 

Hypervolemia 

Hemolysis and Hyperkalemia

Acute Cardiac Failure

 Alexander Paltauf (1851–1924) – an Austrian pathologist and forensic physician

  Profession: He was a professor of general and experimental pathology in Graz and later Vienna.

 Contribution: In his forensic studies of asphyxial deaths, particularly drowning, he described the characteristic subpleural hemorrhages that bear his name today.

Paltauf’s hemorrhages are more commonly seen in fresh water drowning than in salt water drowning, because fresh water rapidly damages alveolar walls and causes vascular rupture.

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