Cardiac and Noncardiac Causes of Apparent Sudden Arrhythmic Deaths: Shadows in a Spectrum

Circulation

Volumn 137, Issue 25, 2018, Pages 2701-2704

  Myerburg, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autopsy; cardiac arrest; cardiac arrhythmias; Editorials; sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL OUTCOME; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FATALITY; GENETIC SCREENING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; REVIEW; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; VICTIM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEART; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AUTOPSY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85060659160     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.034594     Document Type: Review

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