Postmortem diagnosis in sudden cardiac death victims: Macroscopic, microscopic and molecular findings

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 290-300

  Basso, Cristina ^a   Calabrese, Fiorella ^a   Corrado, Domenico ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Histo(patho)logy; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; AUTOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MARFAN SYNDROME; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYOCARDITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; VICTIM;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 0035040923     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(01)00261-9     Document Type: Review

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