Survey of comparative surface concentration liquid ethanol in vitreous eyes right and left in Legal Medicine Isfahan during 2006

Ethanol concentration of cadavers might have an important role in juridical investigations. Partially where suspected death has been reported. The major problem in this regard could be measurement ethanol concentration in corpse blood, that a possible alternative method in determination ethanol concentration in humor. In this study ethanol content of both left and right eyes were measured and compared. This study is a descriptive cross sectional one, thus, corpses suspected of ethanol consumption were studied and then ethalol was measured by gas chromatography (GC) and with regard to P<5% data was analyzed with SPSS and correlation between ethanol consumption and its concentration in vitruos humor was studied. Data about age sex, education level, any possible disorder history, eye surgery, alcohol and drugs consumption were also collected. Samples were taken from 100 corpses (98 male, 2 females). The age of the corpse was in the range of 15 to 81 years old with a mean of 30 years. Results indicated that there is a significant difference in alcohol content in left and right eyes. (p<5%) It seems that any pathological disorder that may affect eye can explain any significant difference in its ethanol content. According to the data it is suggested to take alcohol samples from vitrous humor addition to study toxicological situation of corpses.