GuidelineVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2008
Guidelines for autopsy investigation of sudden cardiac death.
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- Systematic Review of the Genetics of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Potential Overlap With Sudden Cardiac Death and Arrhythmia-Related Genes.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Pooled it
- Guidelines for autopsy investigation of sudden cardiac death: 2017 update from the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2017Guideline
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- Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia: proposed modification of the task force criteria.Circulation · 2010Trial
- Molecular mechanisms of sudden unexplained death and recent updates on molecular autopsy strategies for forensic investigation.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Review
- Impact of organ sampling for forensic pathology: should heart and brain be retained whole?Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Left ventricular ejection fraction and myocardial fibrosis in sudden cardiac death.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025Article
- Sudden Death in the Young: A Nationwide Prospective Epidemiological Study of Sudden Death in Young People Aged 1-35 Years in the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus.Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology · 2025Article
- The lethal fifth cardiac chamber: a rare autopsy case report of left atrial appendage aneurysm and review of literature.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Review
- Predictive Value of Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness for Plaque Vulnerability in Left Coronary Arteries: Histological Evidence from 245 Sudden Cardiac Death Cases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Defining, exploring the sources and expressing post-mortem diagnostic uncertainty.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Review
- Left ventricular rigor mortis interferes with postmortem aortic root geometry.International journal of legal medicine · 2025Article
- Whole-exome sequencing to identify causative variants in juvenile sudden cardiac death.Human genomics · 2024Article
- New Insights on Molecular Autopsy in Sudden Death: A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: State-of-the-Art Review in Molecular Autopsy.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Review
- Cardiovascular pathology in vasculitis.Pathologica · 2024Review
- Post-mortem genetic testing in sudden cardiac death and genetic screening of relatives at risk: lessons learned from a Czech pilot multidisciplinary study.International journal of legal medicine · 2023Article
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- Sudden cardiac death in synucleinopathies.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2023Article
- Application of postmortem imaging modalities in cases of sudden death due to cardiovascular diseases-current achievements and limitations from a pathology perspective : Endorsed by the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology and by the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Although sudden cardiac death is one of the most important mode of death in Western Countries, pathologists and public health physicians have not given this problem the attention it deserves. New methods of preventing potentially fatal arrhythmias have been developed, and the accurate diagnosis of the causes of sudden cardiac death is now of particular importance. Pathologists are responsible for determining the precise cause of sudden death but there is considerable variation in the way in which they approach this increasingly complex task. The Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology developed guidelines, which represent the minimum standard that is required in the routine autopsy practice for the adequate assessment of sudden cardiac death, including not only a protocol for heart examination and histological sampling, but also for toxicology and molecular investigation. Our recommendations apply to university medical centres, regional and district hospitals and all types of forensic medicine institutes. If a uniform method of investigation is adopted throughout the European Union, this will lead to improvements in standards of practice, allow meaningful comparisons between different communities and regions and, most importantly, permit future trends in the patterns of disease causing sudden death to be monitored.
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