ReviewForensic science, medicine, and pathology2009
Sudden adult death.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Letter to the Editor: Reflections on the case report of sudden unexpected death due to B-ALL in a 3-Year-Old child.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Sudden unexpected death due to B-cell acute lymphocytic leukaemia (B-ALL) in a 3-year-old child.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Article
- Death due to unsuspected acute myeloid leukaemia: an unusual forensic diagnosis.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2023Review
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- Sudden death due to acute adrenal crisis.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2015Article
- The effect of fatal carbon monoxide poisoning on the equilibria between cell membranes and the electrolyte solution.The Journal of membrane biology · 2015Article
- The presence of enterovirus, adenovirus, and parvovirus B19 in myocardial tissue samples from autopsies: an evaluation of their frequencies in deceased individuals with myocarditis and in non-inflamed control hearts.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2014Article
- Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum: a possibly neglected cause of sudden cardiac death.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2014Article
- Is sudden death random or is it in the weather?Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2013Article
- Changes in surface-charge density of blood cells after sudden unexpected death.The Journal of membrane biology · 2012Article
- Sudden death in eating disorders.Vascular health and risk management · 2012Review
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Abstract
In the investigation of sudden death in adults, channelopathies, such as long QT syndrome, have risen to the fore in the minds of forensic pathologists in recent years. Examples of these disorders are touched upon in this review as an absence of abnormal findings at postmortem examination is characteristic and the importance of considering the diagnosis lies in the heritable nature of these conditions. Typically, a diagnosis of a possible channelopathy is evoked as an explanation for a 'negative autopsy' in a case of apparent sudden natural death. However, the one potential adverse effect of this approach is that subtle causes of sudden death may be overlooked. The intention of this article is to review and discuss potential causes of sudden adult death (mostly natural) that should be considered before resorting to a diagnosis of possible channelopathy. Nonetheless, it becomes apparent that many of the potential causes of sudden death can have a genetic basis. Thus, it becomes an important consideration that there may be a genetic basis to sudden death that extends beyond the negative autopsy.
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