GuidelineVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2017
Guidelines for autopsy investigation of sudden cardiac death: 2017 update from the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology.
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- Immunohistochemical Assessment of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Reviewing hereditary connective tissue disorders: Proposals of harmonic medicolegal assessments.International journal of legal medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Morphological and Genetic Aspects for Post-Mortem Diagnosis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- COVID-19-Associated cardiac pathology at the postmortem evaluation: a collaborative systematic review.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2022Pooled it
- COVID-19 and myocarditis: a systematic review and overview of current challenges.Heart failure reviews · 2022Pooled it
- 2020 APHRS/HRS expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest, and of their families.Heart rhythm · 2021Guideline
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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
- Clinical and Genetic Characteristics of Hereditary Arrhythmias and Cardiomyopathies in the Middle East.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2026Review
- Contacting next-of-kin for research consent following medico-legal autopsy: a practice-based study from Denmark.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Concealed cardiomyopathy in sudden childhood death: translation from molecular autopsy to family assessment.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2026Article
- Postmortem genetic testing in sudden death: clinical and medico-legal implications.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- Suicide by flecainide: a case report and review of the literature.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Review
- Multidisciplinary and Personalized Molecular Diagnosis to Solving Sudden Death During Sport.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2026Review
- Comparison of Stanford and DeBakey Classification Distributions Between Hospital-Diagnosed and Forensic Autopsy-Diagnosed Aortic Dissection Cases.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Article
- Extensive myocardial disarray in hearts with normal cardiac mass: a concealed cardiomyopathic phenotype with histological overlap with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2026Article
- Polarized Light Microscopy for Quantitative Assessment of Sarcomere-Scale Structural Order in Cardiac Tissue.Journal of biophotonics · 2026Article
- Sildenafil Positivity and Chronic Cardiac Pathology in Men Who Died of Ischemic Heart Disease: An Age- and Sex-Matched Postmortem Case-Control Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fatal Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis After Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement: Specialist Cardiac Autopsy Findings.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Although sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the most important modes 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 SCD is now of particular importance. Pathologists are responsible for determining the precise cause and mechanism of sudden death but there is still considerable variation in the way in which they approach this increasingly complex task. The Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology has developed these guidelines, which represent the minimum standard that is required in the routine autopsy practice for the adequate investigation of SCD. The present version is an update of our original article, published 10 years ago. This is necessary because of our increased understanding of the genetics of cardiovascular diseases, the availability of new diagnostic methods, and the experience we have gained from the routine use of the original guidelines. The updated guidelines include a detailed protocol for the examination of the heart and recommendations for the selection of histological blocks and appropriate material for toxicology, microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular investigation. Our recommendations apply to university medical centers, regionals hospitals, and all healthcare professionals practicing pathology and forensic medicine. We believe that their adoption throughout Europe will improve the standards of autopsy practice, allow meaningful comparisons between different communities and regions, and permit the identification of emerging patterns of diseases causing SCD. Finally, we recommend the development of regional multidisciplinary networks of cardiologists, geneticists, and pathologists. Their role will be to facilitate the identification of index cases with a genetic basis, to screen appropriate family members, and ensure that appropriate preventive strategies are implemented.
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