Anna Garcia's Death: A Case Study

Anna Garcia was a 40 year old woman who mysteriously died on August of 2015. Anna Garcia died because of a stroke caused by diabetes. Evidence of a stroke include the lens of the right eye appearing cloudy, blood vessels in boths eyes are swollen, abnormal blood vessels present on left retina, vision most likely compromised, and mild ischemia in several regions of the brain. Evidence of this stroke being diabetic is many problems found in the autopsy are related to diabetes. These include high blood glucose, atherosclerosis, necrotic section on kidneys, low blood flow, ankles are swollen, mild peripheral vascular disease in left leg and inflamed red injection sites on left thigh.

A lot happened on the morning that Anna died. That morning she ate more glucose than she was supposed to because she is a diabetic. Anna went on a walk and then came back home. She had a diabetic emergency because of the high amount of carbohydrates she had eaten that morning. This is when she tried to inject insulin into her body to
The symptoms of a stroke that are present in Anna could be from diabetes or sickle cell, as well as the ankles being swollen, kidney damage and a low amount of blood flow. All the other complications that I found could not relate to sickle cell but only to diabetes. Also, since there were red injection sights on Anna’s thigh, I thought the stroke would more likely be related to diabetes because you don’t have to inject anything during a sickle cell crisis. Lastly, I don’t think that Anna died from sickle cell because the amount of hydroxyurea Anna had taken was at the prescribed levels. Hydroxyurea helps prevent sickle cell crisis so I believe Anna had her sickle cell well taken care of that day. That is why I concluded that Anna didn’t die from sickle