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Cardiac channelopathy testing in 274 ethnically diverse sudden unexplained deaths.
Forensic science international - 1 Apr 2014
Wang Dawei, Shah Krunal R, Um Sung Yon, Eng Lucy S, Zhou Bo, Lin Ying, Mitchell Adele A, Nicaj Leze, Prinz Mechthild, McDonald Thomas V, Sampson Barbara A, Tang Yingying
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Sudden unexplained deaths (SUD) in apparently healthy individuals, for which the causes of deaths remained undetermined after comprehensive forensic investigations and autopsy, present vexing challenges to medical examiners and coroners. Cardiac channelopathies, a group of inheritable diseases that primarily affect heart rhythm by altering the cardiac conduction system, have been known as one of the likely causes...
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