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Sudden cardiac death with normal heart: molecular autopsy.
Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology - 1 Jan 2000
Basso Cristina, Carturan Elisa, Pilichou Kalliopi, Rizzo Stefania, Corrado Domenico, Thiene Gaetano
Abstract excerpt
Several culprits may be identified at postmortem in sudden death (SD) victims, including coronary artery, myocardial, valve, conduction system, and congenital heart diseases. However, particularly in young people, the heart can be found grossly and histologically normal in a not-so-minor amount of cases (the so-called unexplained SD or "mors sine materia") and inherited ion channel diseases are implicated (long...
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