Molecular autopsy: Twenty years of post-mortem diagnosis in sudden cardiac death

E Martínez-Barrios, S Grassi, M Brión, R Toro… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Sudden cardiac death caused by myocarditis in persons aged 1–49 years: a nationwide study of 14 294 deaths in Denmark

TH Lynge, TS Nielsen, BG Winkel… - Forensic sciences …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Myocarditis is associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the
young. However, information on nationwide burden of SCD caused by myocarditis (SCD …

Cardiac channelopathies and sudden infant death syndrome

J Tfelt-Hansen, BG Winkel, M Grunnet, T Jespersen - Cardiology, 2011 - karger.com
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is always a devastating and unexpected occurrence.
SIDS is the leading cause of death in the first 6 months after birth in the industrialized world …

Risk of sudden infant death syndrome among siblings of children who died of sudden infant death syndrome in Denmark

C Glinge, S Rossetti, LB Oestergaard… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) remains a leading cause of death during
the first year of life. The etiology of SIDS is complex and remains largely unknown. Objective …

Genetic investigations of sudden unexpected deaths in infancy using next-generation sequencing of 100 genes associated with cardiac diseases

CL Hertz, SL Christiansen, MK Larsen, M Dahl… - European journal of …, 2016 - nature.com
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the most frequent manner of post-perinatal death
among infants. One of the suggested causes of the syndrome is inherited cardiac diseases …

Impact of smoke-free legislation on perinatal and infant mortality: a national quasi-experimental study

JV Been, DF Mackay, C Millett, JP Pell… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Smoke-free legislation is associated with improved early-life outcomes; however its impact
on perinatal survival is unclear. We linked individual-level data with death certificates for all …

Epilepsy-related mortality in children and young adults in Denmark: a nationwide cohort study

M Kløvgaard, TH Lynge, I Tsiropoulos, PV Uldall… - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Mortality is increased in epilepsy, but the important issue is that
a proportion of epilepsy-related death is potentially preventable by optimized therapy and …

The Prevalence of Mutations in KCNQ1, KCNH2, and SCN5A in an Unselected National Cohort of Young Sudden Unexplained Death Cases

BG Winkel, MK Larsen, KE Berge… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Sudden unexplained death account for one‐third of all sudden natural deaths
in the young (1–35 years). Hitherto, the prevalence of genopositive cases has primarily been …

Nationwide study of sudden cardiac death in people with congenital heart defects aged 0 to 35 years

TH Lynge, AG Jeppesen, BG Winkel… - Circulation …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Congenital heart defects (CHD) are among the leading causes of sudden
cardiac death (SCD) in the young. Nationwide incidence of SCD in people with CHD (SCD …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular autopsy in sudden cardiac death

O Campuzano, G Sarquella-Brugada - Global Cardiology Science …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A post-mortem genetic analysis in the process of investigating a sudden death episode is
known as 'molecular autopsy'. It is usually performed in cases without a conclusive cause of …