Janet Hall

On 10"h October 2017,an inquest was opened into the death of Janet Hall, who died aged 67 years at Tameside General Hospital, Ashton under Lyne on 18'h September 2017 The investigation concluded at the end of the inquest which heard on 21s February and 12th March 2018. conclusion of the inquest was that Mrs Hall died as a consequence of acute heart failure. Although Mrs Hall had underlying ischaemic heart disease, her heart failure was precipitated by very advanced B Cell lymphoma which had not been diagnosed at the time of her death: The conclusion of the inquest was natural causes:

Mrs Hall first presented to her GP with symptoms of left leg and back pain on 22nd May 2017 The was not relieved by anti-inflammatories, ad continued to progress with increasing analgesia requirements over the course of the summer. On 19'h July 2017, Mrs Hall attended the Emergency Department of The Royal Oldham hospital, complaining of palpitations and a raised heart rate: She was discharged following examination and investigations with a request that her GP arrange cardiology follow up On 9th August 2017, Mrs Hall attended her GP with leg swelling: Her GP referred her to the Vascular Studies centre at Tameside General Hospital where, the following day a scan confirmed the presence ofan extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis. Mrs Hall was admitted to hospital for further investigations, pain relief and anti-coagulant therapy: There then followed a series of admissions attendances to Tameside General Hospital, culminating in Mrs Hall's sad death on 8th September 2017 The medical cause of Mrs Hall's death was:
1)a) Acute left ventricular failure; b) B Cell Iymphoma on background of ischaemic heart disease_ The pain and

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