The sudden death of a young, apparently fit and healthy person is amongst the most
challenging scenarios in clinical medicine. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a devastating …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a rare but devastating complication of a number of
underlying cardiovascular diseases. While coronary artery disease and acute myocardial …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to define the incidence and characterization of
cardiovascular cause of sudden death in the young. Background: The epidemiology of …

Background It has been reported that cardiological screening and genetic evaluation in
relatives of families with sudden unexplained death syndrome and unexplained cardiac …

Sudden death (SD) of children and adults ages 1 to 40 years has received increasing
attention over the past decades. In this report, we provide an overview of this problem …

Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) is a major and tragic complication of a number of
cardiovascular diseases. While in the older populations, SCD is most frequently caused by …

Background The reason behind a sudden death of a young individual remains unknown in
up to 50% of postmortem cases. Pathogenic mutations in genes encoding heart proteins are …

Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue (FF-PET) is an invaluable resource for
retrospective molecular genetic studies, but the extraction of high-quality genomic DNA from …

Objective: Sudden arrhythmia death syndrome (SADS) accounts for about 30% of causes of
sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people. In Hong Kong, there are scarce data on …

QT-interval prolongation is an electrophysiologic phenomenon associated with sudden
cardiac death. The QT-interval in the general population is∼ 35% heritable. In genome-wide …