Potential risk factors for sudden cardiac death: An analysis of medicolegal autopsy cases

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Maeda, Hitoshi ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a,b   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Bessho, Yasumori ^a   Okazaki, Shuji ^a   Kamikodai, Yasunobu ^a   Tsuda, Kohei ^a   Komatsu, Ayumi ^a   Azuma, Yoko ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute cardiac death; C reactive protein; Chronic kidney disease; Coronary lesion; Forensic pathology

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDDEN DEATH; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATININE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SIZE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67349186868     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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