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Cardiac channel molecular autopsy for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Journal of child neurology - 1 Jul 2010
Johnson Jonathan N, Tester David J, Bass Nancy E, Ackerman Michael J
Abstract excerpt
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is the sudden, unexplained, unexpected death of an individual with epilepsy in which postmortem examination does not reveal an anatomic or toxicologic cause of death. Patients with congenital long QT syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia have been frequently initially diagnosed with epilepsy. A cardiac channel molecular autopsy of the common long QT...
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