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A comparison of genetic findings in sudden cardiac death victims and cardiac patients: the importance of phenotypic classification.
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology - 1 Mar 2015
Hertz Christin L, Ferrero-Miliani Laura, Frank-Hansen Rune, Morling Niels, Bundgaard Henning
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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is responsible for a large proportion of non-traumatic, sudden and unexpected deaths in young individuals. Sudden cardiac death is a known manifestation of several inherited cardiac diseases. In post-mortem examinations, about two-thirds of the SCD cases show structural abnormalities at autopsy. The remaining cases stay unexplained after thorough investigations and are referred to as...
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