Sudden Unexpected Death in Young Adults including Four Cases of SADS: A 10-year review from the West of Ireland (1985-1994)

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 242-247

  Bennani, Fadel K ^a   Connolly, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASTHMATIC STATE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; IRELAND; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SIZE; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATUS ASTHMATICUS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0031179546     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249703700309     Document Type: Article

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