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Sudden cardiac death with autopsy findings of uncertain significance: potential for erroneous interpretation.
Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology - 1 Jun 2013
Papadakis Michael, Raju Hariharan, Behr Elijah R, De Noronha Sofia V, Spath Nicholas, Kouloubinis Alexandros, Sheppard Mary N, Sharma Sanjay
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BACKGROUND: The sudden death of young individuals is commonly attributed to inherited cardiac disorders, and familial evaluation is advocated. The identification of pathognomonic histopathologic findings, or the absence of cardiac pathology (sudden arrhythmic death syndrome [SADS]) at postmortem, directs familial evaluation targeting structural disorders or primary arrhythmogenic syndromes, respectively. In a...
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