Update on sudden cardiac death: Epidemiology and risk stratification
| Autor: | Luis Alberto Escobar-Robledo, Antoni Bayés de Luna, Josep Arimany-Manso, Albert Massó van-Roessel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Heart disease business.industry 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease Left ventricular hypertrophy Sudden death Sudden cardiac death 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Coronary thrombosis Internal medicine Heart failure Epidemiology medicine Cardiology cardiovascular diseases 030216 legal & forensic medicine Myocardial infarction business |
| Zdroj: | Spanish Journal of Legal Medicine. 44:5-12 |
| ISSN: | 2445-4249 |
| Popis: | In this article, a discussion is presented on the following aspects of sudden death, related to legal medicine. The epidemiological aspects and diseases associated with sudden death are discussed first. This is followed by presenting the chain of events leading to the final arrhythmias triggering sudden death, and the legal aspects of this. This is a comparative study of the final arrhythmias responsible of sudden death in patients with: (1) acute myocardial infarction; (2) with no apparent heart disease; and (3) with heart failure. A comparison is also made between the incidence of ischaemic heart disease, acute coronary thrombosis, and left ventricular hypertrophy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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