Postmortem Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis: A Marker of Inflammation or Postmortem Artifact?

Table 4

Data from Osuna et al [10].

Diagnostic group	Number of cases	Survival time in hours, mean (SD)	Postmortem interval in hours, mean (SD)	CSF protein in g/L, range (median)
Head trauma	11	0.9 (0.8)	51.5 (18.8)	2.8–42.4 (14)
Hypoxia	7	1.0 (1.0)	49.7 (23.3)	2.4–28.5 (7)
Sudden cardiac death	7	0.0 (0.0)	41.1 (26.9)	0.5–6.1 (2)
Other	9	2.0 (1.7)	51.2 (30.5)	1.2–9.2 (6)