Article
[Application of molecular autopsy in sudden death caused by inherited arrhythmia].
Fa yi xue za zhi - 1 Oct 2012
Lü Ye-hui, Li Wen-can, Chen Long
Abstract excerpt
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) refers to sudden stop of breath and heartbeat and death within one hour caused by underlying cardiac diseases. Clinical manifestation of inherited arrhythmia is lethal arrhythmia without gross cardiac lesions, which can lead to SCD. The autopsy and pathological examination are difficult to identify the cause of death. Fatal mechanism of inherited arrhythmia is the change in the genes...
Topics
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac
- Autopsy
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Humans
- Mutation
- Pathology, Molecular
