In this section of the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021, key information on
the epidemiology and outcome of in and out of hospital cardiac arrest are presented. Key …

In the forensic medicine field, molecular autopsy is the post-mortem genetic analysis
performed to attempt to unravel the cause of decease in cases remaining unexplained after …

Molecular autopsy is the process of investigating sudden death through genetic analysis. It
is particularly useful in cases where traditional autopsy is negative or only shows non …

Background: Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) describes a sudden death with
negative autopsy and toxicological analysis. Cardiac genetic disease is a likely etiology …

Background Sudden unexplained death may be the first manifestation of an unknown
inherited cardiac disease. Current genetic technologies may enable the unraveling of an …

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the most common genetic cardiovascular
diseases, and it shows an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. HCM can be clinically …

In forensic medicine, one-third of the sudden deaths remain unexplained after medico-legal
autopsy. A major proportion of these sudden unexplained deaths (SUD) are considered to …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is often associated with structural abnormalities of the heart
during autopsy. This study sought to compare the diagnostic yield of postmortem genetic …

Purpose Genetic studies in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sudden unexplained
death (SUD) cohorts have indicated that cardiovascular diseases might have contributed to …

Inherited cardiomyopathies are frequent causes of sudden cardiac death (SCD), especially
in young patients. Despite at the autopsy they usually have distinctive microscopic and/or …