ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2005
Sudden cardiac death in a child affected by Prader-Willi syndrome.
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- Nandrolone Decanoate: Use, Abuse and Side Effects.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Pooled it
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- Gastric aspiration in sudden unexpected infant death of Prader-Willi syndrome: immunohistochemical detection of feeding components.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Article
- Preserved Sleep for the Same Level of Respiratory Disturbance in Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Forensic Post-Mortem Investigation in AAS Abusers: Investigative Diagnostic Protocol. A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Sudden Death in Adults: A Practical Flow Chart for Pathologist Guidance.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Adverse Effects of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids: A Literature Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Sudden Cardiac Death in Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Users: A Literature Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Review
- Causes of death in Prader-Willi syndrome: lessons from 11 years' experience of a national reference center.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2019Observational
- Correlation between hyperghrelinemia and carotid artery intima-media thickness in children with Prader-Willi syndrome.Yonsei medical journal · 2010Article
- Identification of an ethnic-specific variant (V207M) of the KCNQ1 cardiac potassium channel gene in sudden unexplained death and implications from a knock-in mouse model.International journal of legal medicine · 2009Article
- Sudden cardiac death during anabolic steroid abuse: morphologic and toxicologic findings in two fatal cases of bodybuilders.International journal of legal medicine · 2007Review
- Cardiac pathology in death from electrocution.International journal of legal medicine · 2006Article
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Abstract
A case of sudden cardiac death in a 3-year-old young male affected by Prader-Willi syndrome, clinically diagnosed and confirmed by means of DNA methylation, is presented. The infant suddenly collapsed at home and was taken apparently unconsciousness by his mother to the emergency clinic where he was pronounced dead. A complete postmortem examination was performed and the histological findings led to the definition of cardiac death with a typical picture of contraction band necrosis. Pulmonary hypoxic alterations are frequently reported as the primary cause of death in PWS cases. In this fatal case according to the macroscopic and microscopic findings, the cause of death was most likely cardiac and possibly related to contraction band necrosis linked with ventricular fibrillation and sudden death.
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