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Cardiac channel molecular autopsy: insights from 173 consecutive cases of autopsy-negative sudden unexplained death referred for postmortem genetic testing.
Mayo Clinic proceedings - 1 Jun 2012
Tester David J, Medeiros-Domingo Argelia, Will Melissa L, Haglund Carla M, Ackerman Michael J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To perform long QT syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia cardiac channel postmortem genetic testing (molecular autopsy) for a large cohort of cases of autopsy-negative sudden unexplained death (SUD). METHODS: From September 1, 1998, through October 31, 2010, 173 cases of SUD (106 males; mean ± SD age, 18.4 ± 12.9 years; age range, 1-69 years; 89% white) were referred by...
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