Sudden natural death

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Sudden natural death happens. It must be differentiated from other ways of dying (suicide, homicide, accidental).

By system

Respiratory[1]

  • Anaphylaxis.
  • Asthma.
  • Pulmonary embolism.

Cerebral

  • SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy).

Cardiac

  • Atherosclerotic heart disease (ASHD); AKA coronary artery disease (CAD).
  • Right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
  • Arrhythmia.

Detailed cardiac[1]

  • CAD, hypertrophic CM.
  • Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
  • Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
  • Lymphocytic myocarditis.
  • Floppy mitral valve (MV).
  • Aortic valve stenosis.
  • Congenital cardiac abnormality.
  • Coronary artery dissection.
  • Aortic dissection.
  • Arrhythmia.[2]
    • Long QT syndrome.
    • Brugada syndrome.
    • Short QT syndrome.
    • Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT).
    • Anomalous conduction pathways.
    • Dysplasia of nodal arteries.
    • Atrioventricular node tumour.
    • Sodium channel disease.
    • Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation.

Post-mortem (molecular) testing for arrhythmias:[3]

  • CPVT.
  • Sodium channel disease.
  • Brugada syndrome.

By mechanism

Hemorrhagic[1]

  • Ruptured AAA.
  • Peptic ulcer.
  • Cerebral aneurysm.

See also

Reference

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 de la Grandmaison GL (January 2006). "Is there progress in the autopsy diagnosis of sudden unexpected death in adults?". Forensic Sci. Int. 156 (2-3): 138–44. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.12.024. PMID 16410164.
  2. ↑ URL: http://www.sads.org.uk/causes_of_sads.htm. Accessed on: 29 September 2010.
  3. ↑ MSP. 29 September 2010:
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