[Postmortem genetic analysis following sudden cardiac death : Background, approach, and future].

Abstract excerpt

BACKGROUND: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is defined as an unexpected, nontraumatic death with a possible cardiac or unknown cause. The lowest incidence is observed in infancy and childhood (1 per 100,000), and the incidence is approximately 50 per 100,000 in the middle-aged population, reaching a plateau around the age of 80 (200 per 100,000). While most SCD cases occur in older people with coronary artery disease,...

Topics

• Middle Aged
• Humans
• Aged
• Child
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Genetic Testing
• Arrhythmias, Cardiac
• Mutation
• Autopsy