New technologies in the genetic approach to sudden cardiac death in the young.

Abstract excerpt

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major health problem and constitutes one of the most important unsolved challenges in the practice of forensic pathology due to the failure to determine the cause of death. Particularly, an important number of previously healthy young people who have died suddenly and unexpectedly are consequence of genetic heart disorders, either structural cardiomyopathies or arrhythmogenic...

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• Arrhythmias, Cardiac
• Cardiomyopathies
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Forensic Genetics
• Gene Expression Profiling