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*Atherosclerotic heart disease (ASHD); [[AKA]] coronary artery disease (CAD). | *Atherosclerotic heart disease (ASHD); [[AKA]] coronary artery disease (CAD). | ||
*Right ventricular cardiomyopathy. | *Right ventricular cardiomyopathy. | ||
* | *[[Hypertension]] - a heart > ~400 g is considered good enough if nothing else is present.<ref>MSP. 29 September 2010.</ref> | ||
Notes: | |||
*The mechanism is usually arrhythmia; this is usually not provable at autopsy. | |||
====Detailed cardiac<ref name=pmid16410164/>==== | ====Detailed cardiac<ref name=pmid16410164/>==== | ||
* | *ASHD, | ||
*[[Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy]] ( | *Cardiomyopathy. | ||
*Dilated [[cardiomyopathy]] (DCM). | **Hypertrophic CM. | ||
**[[Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy]] (ARVCM). | |||
**Dilated [[cardiomyopathy]] (DCM). | |||
*Lymphocytic myocarditis. | *Lymphocytic myocarditis. | ||
*Floppy mitral valve (MV). | *Floppy mitral valve (MV). | ||