A statement from the office also said the student's medical records had been reviewed and his doctor extensively interviewed.
Last week, the release of a detained USA tourist in what initially seemed a gesture of goodwill by Pyongyang turned sour when it was revealed that 22-year-old Otto Warmbier had been in a coma for some time.
"No conclusions about the cause and manner of Warmbier's death have been drawn at this time as there are additional medical records and imaging to review and people to interview", the coroner's office said, expressing its "deepest sympathies" to his "family and friends at this time of their tragic loss".
A funeral will be held Thursday at his alma mater, Wyoming High School in Ohio.
Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner while visiting with a tour group and was convicted of subversion. It said his medical records from an air ambulance service that brought him to OH and from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he was hospitalized until his death Monday, have been reviewed, and the treating physicians have been interviewed extensively. His family is blaming North Korea for "awful, torturous mistreatment". He was then sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. His family said it was told he had been in a coma since soon after his sentencing.
A USA missionary who spent two years in a North Korean jail said Wednesday he had never imagined that a valuable American prisoner like student Otto Warmbier could die after being taken into Pyongyang's custody.
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"I think there have been some positive steps that they've taken, both at the United Nations and economically, to help strengthen the case against North Korea".
On his release, Mr Warmbier was in "a state of unresponsive wakefulness" - he could blink and breathe on his own but not react to his environment. Doctors in Cincinnati said they found no active sign of botulism or evidence of beatings.
Despite worldwide condemnation and sanctions, North Korea has a small nuclear arsenal and is developing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that threaten Japan and South Korea - and one-day could even hit some U.S. cities.
But tensions remain - particularly over China's building of artificial islands in disputed South China Sea waters, and Washington's strong desire to get Beijing to rein in Kim Jong-Un's isolated North Korean regime.
Washington has one threat it can use with Beijing: The possibility of "secondary" sanctions that go after Chinese companies doing business in North Korea.
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