PMID: 11334844May 4, 2001Paper

Sudden cardiac death in young people with apparently normal heart

Cardiovascular Research
D CorradoG Thiene

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of subtle morphologic substrates, clinically unrecognizable, underlying sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people with apparently normal heart. In the time interval 1979--1998, 273 consecutive cases of SCD in young people (< or =35 years) which occurred in the Veneto Region of Italy were prospectively studied. Following exclusion of extracardiac causes of sudden death, the heart was examined according to a detailed morphologic protocol consisting of macroscopic and histologic examination, including study of the specialized conduction system by serial sections. At macroscopic examination, 197 SCD victims (72%) had an overt underlying structural heart disease such as cardiomyopathy in 56, obstructive coronary atherosclerosis in 54, valve disease in 32, non-atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in 28, aortic rupture in 13, postoperative congenital heart disease in five, and other disease in nine. The remaining 76 cases (28%) (50 males and 26 females, aged 4-35 years, mean 23+/-5 years) had a macroscopically normal heart. A total of 28 of them (37%) had experienced one or more of the following prodroma: syncope, palpitations or both in 20, ECG abnormalities in 18 and arrh...Continue Reading

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