Autopsy shows Greek soldier died of heart attack.Byline: Anna Hassapi THE AUTOPSY on the body of the 19-year-old soldier, Themistokles Yiannakakis, serving in the Greek contingent in Cyprus (ELYK), showed the cause of death was an acute heart attack. Yiannakakis died suddenly on Tuesday morning just before a scheduled military training at Asgata in Limassol. C[pounds sterling]Although there should have been symptoms that indicated the state of his health, the 19-year-old had not previously complained that he did not feel well,C[yen] said Nikolas Charalambous, the medical coroner coroner (kôr`ənər), judicial officer responsible for investigating deaths occurring through violence or under suspicious circumstances. The office has been traced to the late 12th cent. who performed the autopsy. The autopsyCOs findings were confirmed by a medical coroner from Greece, who examined the body on behalf of the Yiannakakis family. Despite these initial findings, however, the exact cause of death is expected to be determined by the toxicology toxicology, study of poisons, or toxins, from the standpoint of detection, isolation, identification, and determination of their effects on the human body. Toxicology may be considered the branch of pharmacology devoted to the study of the poisonous effects of drugs. and pathology test findings. Specifically, these tests will indicate whether the 19-year-old had consumed any substances that may have impaired his health, particularly as he had gone out the night before his death. Yiannakakis reportedly suffered from epilepsy epilepsy, a chronic disorder of cerebral function characterized by periodic convulsive seizures. There are many conditions that have epileptic seizures. Sudden discharge of excess electrical activity, which can be either generalized (involving many areas of cells in , which raises serious questions on whether he should have been serving in the special forces. The 19-year-oldCOs parents arrived yesterday from Thessaloniki, to return his body to Greece. Copyright A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] Cyprus Mail Cyprus Mail is a Cypriot English-language newspaper. It is published daily (except Mondays) and a number of articles are available online. Its current chief editor is Kosta Pavlowitch.The managing director is Kyriakos Iacovides. 2008 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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